Spitfire search descends into farce

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The quest to find scores of buried Spitfires in Burma was yesterday beginning to descend into farce as doubts grew that any would ever be found. Recrimination and disappointment were in danger of splitting the team of experts searching for as many as 136 of the Second World War fighters. The project had finally started after 17 years of effort by a Spitfire devotee trying to find the aircraft last seen boxed up in large crates in 1946. But divisions among members of the team emerged after they had been searching near the capital Yangon for two weeks. Yesterday that dig was  suspended and the bizarre treasure hunt will move to a second location 900 miles to the north.

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