Underneath the pacific, the fish have claimed a Corsair (above) that was abandoned after a fuel leak caused the engine to die on a routine flight from Pearl Harbor during World War Ⅱ. The pilot strapped on a life jacket and was rescued shortly after ditching. An R4D-8 (opposite, top), the Navy version of the Super DC-3, rests on a lava beach in Iceland after running out of fuel on its way back to base in bad weather in 1973. The crew survived, but the airplane proved too difficult to rescue from the basalt field. Photographer Dietmar Eckell thinks of these as stories with a "happy end," which is the title of his latest book. Inspired by "the miracles that everybody survived these crash landings and were rescued from these remote locations," Eckell has traveled the world photographing "beautiful airplanes that now rest in grand landscapes," such as a B-24 in Papua New Guinea (right) and a Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton in the Western Sahara (opposite, bottom). His collection of these images was published in 2013.
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