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“Aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun’s Tomb” in Western Sahara: a perfectly preserved plane found 70 years after it went down

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Polish oil company worker Jakub Perka was exploring a remote region of the Western Sahara desert in Egypt when he stumbled across a plane, later identified as a UK’s Royal Air Force P-40 Warhawk, almost intact and untouched, that went missing in 1942, during WWII. The plane was so perfectly preserved it still had guns [...]

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