Daniel Christensen amid the wreckage of a fighter
A teenager from Denmark, doing a school assignment, found with his father on the farm the wreckage of German aircraft during the Second world war with the remains of the pilot in the cockpit. It is reported by CNN.
14-year-old Daniel Christiansen from Birkelse and his father Klaus stumbled upon the Messerschmidt fighter, when using a metal detector trying to find in the box of old utensils. “We went to the field with a metal detector. I was hoping that we will be able to find some old plates or anything else that Daniel could show you in school,” said Claus Christiansen.
Instead of utensils, father and son found the wreckage of the plane. After that, they borrowed the neighbor’s backhoe, dug a pit. “First we dug out metal debris mixed with mud, and then suddenly came upon bones and pieces of clothes” — said the farmer.
Christiansen remembered the stories his grandfather, who said that in November or December 1944, in these places crashed German plane. “I thought it was just a joke,” admitted the Dane.
Currently, the findings are working engineers who have to defuse the ammunition. Historical Museum of Northern Jutland, which took up the wreckage of the aircraft, expects soon to establish the identity of the pilot. “We found documents of the pilot, and I think we have a name,” said the Museum’s curator Torben Sarauw.
Historians suggests, that the fighter took off from a training base, which was located in the nearby city of Aalborg. This, in particular, indicate the food stamps database, which had the pilot.
About the discovery notified the Embassy of Germany in Denmark.