US Navy ends search for downed WWII plane off Estonian coast

Three days after the crash, Estonia was annexed by the Soviet Union. Neither the Soviet Union nor Russia have acknowledged shooting down the plane. Some believe the Soviet military recovered the Kaleva's wreckage some years after its disappearance. This week, three U.S.

Navy underwater search vehicles found no signs of the plane and called off the search after six days, said Martin Ammond, senior surveyor aboard the USNS Pathfinder. There is no indication of a large human-made object in this area," Ammond said. I have a high level of confidence that the plane is not there.

The search, which began Friday, centered around the tiny island of Keri, some 0 miles (30 kilometers) northeast of Tallinn, where Finnish and Estonian experts had believed the plane was lying at a depth of 300 feet ( 0 meters) somewhere near the island. Among the Kaleva's passengers was Henry Antheil, a courier at the U.S.

Embassy in Helsinki, who had rushed to Tallinn to evacuate sensitive documents from the American Legation as the Soviet Union prepared to occupy Estonia and its Baltic neighbors, Latvia and Lithuania. The search for the Kaleva was initiated by Estonian Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo, who asked the U.S. Kaleva. Disclaimer: This news article is copyrighted by Associated Press and published by PR-inside.com.

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