Zachary wrote:Question for the UK legal experts. What is to stop any other team or group from going in and recovering the airplane right now? Does TIGHAR have some sort of registered legal claim to the airplane?
Zack
It falls under the jurisdiction of the Receiver Of Wrecks as it is below the low water mark. The Insane Group for Hysterical Aviation Rumors did have a license to recover it, but that expired ages ago. It's not some big secret where it is, people have known about it for decades.