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Moscow's Monino Air Force Museum is on fire

Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:36 am

Just horrible, but no details yet:

http://www.aero-news.net/

Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:26 pm

From Russia


Monino AF Museum fire destroyed 1800 square meter of exposition. Loss of some documents, engines, uniforms, orders and etc. of WWI period and between WWI-WWII too. It was fire after welding in time of reconstruction of central hangar that was collapsed two years ago.
No airplanes were damaged, but total losses was on the sum of 7
million dollars.
Last edited by DaveM2 on Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:45 pm

historically you really can't put a price on the loss!! :cry: regards, tom

Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:32 pm

AnyONE hurt :!:

regards,

t~
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