<p>In November 2003 the wing of an airplane breaks the surface of the Baltic. It is being brought up by the Swedish navy after 51 years on the sea floor. This is a turningpoint in a story of grief and political disasters that began 1952 when a seemingly normal DC3 from the neutral Swedish air force took of from Stockholm airport. What was said to be a routine mission during the cold war became a nightmare for relatives and endless problems for military and political leaders. </p>

<p>The plane never returned and rumours claimed it had been shoot down by Russians, a rumour that became a fact three decades later when Russia admitted. What also became clear was the fact that the plane was hired by the western side to do examinations of the Russian activities in the eastern Baltic, carrying advanced British radar equipment. In 2003 a group of civilian divers and the crew on a private rescue ship managed to do what the entire Swedish Navy and air force had failed to do: to find the airplane. After years of research in archives and endless months on the sea the plane finally showed up on the side scan sonar displays.</p>

SVT. Popular history. 90 min. 2005.