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Lost IAR 80 no.264

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guina	Posted: July 11, 2007 11:43 am
Plutonier major Group: Members Posts: 339 Member No.: 1393 Joined: April 16, 2007	If anybody is interested in the fate of adj.av. Aurel Olaru and his IAR 80C,i can translate what I found on a russian site.

Messerschmitt	Posted: July 11, 2007 01:13 pm
Sergent major Group: Members Posts: 241 Member No.: 975 Joined: June 27, 2006	Go on!

guina	Posted: July 11, 2007 01:30 pm
Plutonier major Group: Members Posts: 339 Member No.: 1393 Joined: April 16, 2007	OK,in a couple of hours.

Sturmpionier	Posted: July 11, 2007 01:50 pm
Fruntas Group: Members Posts: 98 Member No.: 630 Joined: July 22, 2005	Could you please give a link to this Russian site ?

guina	Posted: July 11, 2007 02:19 pm
Plutonier major Group: Members Posts: 339 Member No.: 1393 Joined: April 16, 2007	T he site is http://aratta.ua/rumynskiy-istrebitel-JAR-80C.html The story begins in the summer of 2003 when members of the diving club "Ararat",discovered near the vilage of Chernomorskaya,the wrek of a IAR 80.It sunk in 5 meters of water,some 50 m. from sea shore.The plane,an IAR80c,belonged to 49-th squadron which toghether whith 45 and 46 squadrons formed the 4 group.The plane was piloted by adj. av.Aurel Olaru,and it was brought down,by mistake, by german A.A.Acording to german records the pilot died in this incident.Acording to eye wittneses ,pilot managet to jump and was saved by fishermen.The date was 4 feb.1944,and it was based in Evpatoria,the plane i mean. Now,according to the divers,the plane came down,engine runing,and was in very good condition.No human remains were found.Imediately after discovery,the local villagers started stealling parts,first coulored metals then armament etc.In sep.03 the plane was still in a reasonable condition,but then,the engine was stolen and then the rest. The divers pretend that romanian authoryties were informed. Does anyone have coroborating info?

Victor	Posted: July 12, 2007 06:31 am
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 4350 Member No.: 3 Joined: February 11, 2003	See here: http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=421

Treize	Posted: July 12, 2007 04:02 pm
Caporal Group: Members Posts: 102 Member No.: 702 Joined: October 22, 2005	Victor, do you still have the pics you posted in that old thread? The links are broken now, and I'd love to see what they found. Hadn't found this forum yet way back then.

Victor	Posted: July 12, 2007 07:54 pm
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 4350 Member No.: 3 Joined: February 11, 2003	No, I lost them a while ago when I accidentally formatted an HDD on my computer.

MaxFax

Posted: July 13, 2007 07:09 am

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QUOTE (Victor @ July 12, 2007 09:54 pm)

No, I lost them a while ago when I accidentally formatted an HDD on my computer.

Ohhh Victor !!

Maybe some other forum members have saved the pictures ?!
Denes, Cantacuzino ?!

Victor	Posted: July 14, 2007 11:14 am
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 4350 Member No.: 3 Joined: February 11, 2003	Well we could ask the Ukrainian divers for further photos, I think. They are correct, I have notified the commander of the Air Force Museum about it, gave him the photos and emails I received and he said he will contact the Ukrainian military attaché. I do not know what happened after that.

Cantacuzino

Posted: July 15, 2007 05:08 am

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Well we could ask the Ukrainian divers for further photos, I think. They are correct, I have notified the commander of the Air Force Museum about it, gave him the photos and emails I received and he said he will contact the Ukrainian military attaché. I do not know what happened after that.

Nothing happened. The commander of the Air Force Museum didn't do anything to bring that pieces. He even didn't want to give us the contact of the ucrainian guys.
But anyway we will try to get that pieces on private ways.

guina	Posted: July 15, 2007 10:54 am
Plutonier major Group: Members Posts: 339 Member No.: 1393 Joined: April 16, 2007	As far as I understood only the 20 mm gun is left and is kept in their museum.

George	Posted: July 16, 2007 04:48 pm
Fruntas Group: Members Posts: 80 Member No.: 138 Joined: November 07, 2003	The IAR was downed by a sub. hunter No.101.Before that it shot an german Me-109 who managed to land with heavy black smoke behind.All a/c fired the daily signal.

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