Divers pull sunken plane from Lake Cumberland

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Divers pull sunken plane from Lake Cumberland

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Sat 1:20 PM, Oct 12, 2013 CUMBERLAND POINT, Ky. (AP) - A salvage company has pulled a water-logged airplane from the bottom of Lake Cumberland in south-central Kentucky.

Divers Den owner Dean Littrell and a crew removed the two-seater plane in September, a first for his company after 25 years of salvaging water wrecks.

Littrell told The Commonwealth-Journal (http://bit.ly/1ccZVhW ) that his crew brings up five to six boats a year from the bottom of the lake, but never something as large as an airplane.

The two-seater plane was equipped to land on water. The owner had landed on Lake Cumberland near Cumberland Point, but the plane had been overcome by a large wave. The single-engine went nose-first into the water, and took on too much water for them to pull the plane to safety with the help of a boater.

See also
http://www.kentucky.com/2013/10/12/2873 ... -from.html

http://somerset-kentucky.com/local/x211 ... Cumberland

Divers took around eight hours on the weekend of Sept. 7 to pull a damaged plane from beneath around 45 feet of water at Cumberland Point on Lake Cumberland.

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From left to right: Ricky Middleton, Travis Smith, Divers Den Owner Dean Littrell, Kevin Barnhouse, and Donald Maxfield are shown with a single-engine, two-seater plane equipped for water landings they pulled up after they were called to Cumberland Point to recover the aircraft from the depths of Lake Cumberland.

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