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Originally Posted by FalkeEins
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As Peter C and Chris G have said, it really is a case of wait and see! If the aircraft it is said to be did indeed put down on the sands at low tide then the location and attitude (upside down) of the wreck might be difficult to reconcile with that fact. Plus, the possibility cannot be excluded that it is one of many other Do17s in that sea area, of course. A case of wait and see.
On the other hand, and if reports of five x MG15s being recovered from this particular wreck by sport divers are correct it might beg another question; surely there would have been only four if the escape hatch had been ditched? In other words, and in theory, there would still have been four in the cabin area but the fifth would have surely gone with the escape hatch?
Just musings. And we cannot be sure that the recovered MG15s originated with this wreck, of course, or that the quoted total (five) is accurate.
Little point in speculating until that Werke Nr. is found. For the sake of RAFM I hope it is the one they say it is. However, for the purposes of the PMR Act licence they had to apply a confirmed identity else a recovery licence could not have been granted. And the Dornier in question ticked the right boxes. However, as Peter C says, for the time being it can only be speculative.