Crashed plane of Second World War pilot Dennis Copping discovered in the Sahara desert | Mail Online
Frozen in the sands of time: Eerie Second World War RAF fighter plane discovered in the Sahara... 70 years after it crashed in the desert
[*]Pilot of the Kittyhawk P-40 was thought to have survived crash, but died trying to walk out of the desert
[*]Aircraft was found almost perfectly preserved, unseen and untouched, after it came down in 1942
[*]Historian describes find as 'an incredible time capsule' and 'the aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun's Tomb'
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Paul Harris
PUBLISHED: 07:18 EST, 10 May 2012 | UPDATED: 02:38 EST, 11 May 2012