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World|life|March 9, 2017 / 03:04 PM
Boy finds WWII plane with pilot's remains in cockpit

AKIPRESS.COM - When Klaus Kristiansen tried to bring his son's history homework to life, he probably wasn't expecting the boy to unearth a buried World War Two warplane, BBC reported.

Or for excited TV crews, forensic police and explosives experts to descend on his family's farm in Birkelse, Denmark.

But that's exactly what happened when 14-year-old Daniel Rom Kristiansen found the remains of a German Messerschmitt plane, and its pilot, in an unremarkable field.

According to Mr Kristiansen, his grandfather once told him that a plane had crashed there in November 1944.

He told Danish news station DR P4 Nordjylland: "When my son Daniel was recently given homework about World War Two, I jokingly told him to go out and find the plane that is supposed to have crashed out in the field."

Father and son joined forces with a metal detector, but never expected to find anything.

Mr Kristiansen, an agricultural worker, believed the wreckage had been removed years before.

But then, a telltale beeping on a patch of boggy ground.

The pair began digging, but realised they needed to go deeper.

They borrowed an excavator from a neighbour, and around four to six metres down, the plane's carcass began to reveal itself.

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