Fate of Aircraft
Mogadishu, photographed by Danish photographer Jan Grarup during the summer of 2012.]]Quite unusual, the remains of the aircraft still litters the streets of Mogadishu as of August 2012. Danish photographer Jan Grarup photographed the cockpit section of the aircraft during the summer of 2012, lying just across the street from a school, which was damaged during the war, but which is currently being rebuilt.
The fact that remains of the aircraft are still lying in the streets of Mogadishu might indicate that the efforts to establish whether the aircraft was shot down or not have not been seriously pursued.
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