[Ed Storey]

Unfortunately a myopic view of history were SWW artifacts are more respected then current material means that the mistakes made with the Lancaster bombers are still being made today. Chinook 205 '2 for Hooking' was a combat aircraft that crashed on 16 May, 2011 while carrying Canadian soldiers and a journalist in a remote part of southern Afghanistan. Luckily no-one was killed but four were hurt, one seriously and everyone was evacuated to the base at Sperwan Ghar. The aircraft was recovered and flown back to Kandahar by the United States Marine Corps where the fuselage was then shipped back to CFB Petawawa, the nose-art was removed, and the fuselage now sits neglected in Borden. If this were a SWW aircraft it would long ago have been placed in storage for eventual restoration.