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Aberdares is graveyard of plane technology

Wreckage of a WW II Blenheim bomber in the Aberdares. John Romain is on the right. Photo by XN Iraki. [File, Standard]

Long before the Ethiopian plane crash, another crash had mystified us for 77 years. It happened much earlier in 1942 during WW2. The wreckage lies in the moorlands of the Aberdares about 12,000 feet above sea level near the source of Malewa River, the key inlet to Lake Naivasha. And not far from Satima Peak.

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