Are these the first pictures of the doomed Rietbok plane?

New technology used to try to resolve 57-year-old mystery of flight SA 406

06 October 2024 - 00:00

To some the images may seem unremarkable — splodges of grey against a yellow background. To plane-wreck hunter Wouter Botes, the underwater pictures of the ocean bed off East London are almost certainly the missing pieces of a 57-year-old mystery. ..

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