An Airbus A330 plane was submerged into the sea near Ibrice port in northwestern Turkey on June 14, 2019, as a governmental action to boost scuba diving tourism. /VCG Photo
The plane parts were brought from Antalya on six trucks, and it has been sunken a mile away from the coast in cooperation with Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline Project (TANAP). /VCG Photo
Placed around 30 meters below the sea surface, the retired passenger airplane is transferred into an artificial reef at Gulf of Saros and claimed as the world’s largest sunken aircraft. /VCG Photo
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