Salvage platoon in Estonia says it located well- saved corridor and debris from the jalopies Ju 52 aeroplane shot down in 1940. The World War II riddle of what happed to a Finnish passenger aeroplane after it was shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet bombers appears to eventually be answered further than 80 times latterly. The aeroplane was carrying American and French politic couriers in June 1940 when it was downed just days before Moscow adjoined the Baltic countries.
All nine people on board the aeroplane were killed including the two- member Finnish crew and the seven passengers — an American diplomat, two French, two Germans, a Swede and a binary Estonian- Finnish public. A diving and salvage platoon in Estonia said this week it located well- saved corridor and debris from the jalopies Ju 52 aeroplane operated by Finnish airline Aero, which is now Finnair.
It was set up off the bitsy islet of Keri near Estonia’s capital, Tallinn, at a depth of 70 metres( 230 bases). “ principally, we started from scrape. We took a whole different approach to the hunt, ” said Kaido Peremees, prophet for the Estonian diving and aquatic check company Tuukritoode OU, explained the group’s success in chancing the aeroplane’s remains.
The downing of the mercenary aeroplane, named Kaleva, en route from Tallinn to Helsinki happed on June 14, 1940 — just three months after Finland inked a peace convention with Moscow following the 1939- 40 Winter War. The news about the fate of the aeroplane met unbelief and wrathfulness by authorities in Helsinki who were informed it was shot down by two Soviet DB- 3 bombers 10 twinkles after taking off from Tallinn’s Ulemiste field.
“ It is unique that passenger aeroplane was shot down during reconciliation on a normal listed flight, ” said Finnish aeronautics annalist Carl- Fredrik Geust, who has delved Kaleva’s case since the 1980s. Finland officially kept silent for times about the details of the aircraft destruction intimately only a “ mysterious crash ” had taken place over the Baltic Sea, because it didn't want to provoke Moscow.
Though well proved by books, exploration and TV pictures, the 84- time-old riddle has intrigued Finns. The case is an essential part of the Nordic country’s complex World War II history and sheds light into its worried ties with Moscow.
But maybe more importantly, the downing of the aeroplane happed at a critical time just days before Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union was preparing to addition the three Baltic countries, sealing the fate of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for the coming half- century before they ultimately recaptured independence in 1991.