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Old 7th Jun 2008, 14:24
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Finn47
 
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As far as I know, the ice on the lake melted and the 707 sunk to the bottom before they could recover the plane from the spot. This happened in Karelia, which under the Soviet rule became a rather backward, impoverished province.
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