丹麥男孩田野中挖出二戰飛機殘骸和飛行員遺骨

A 14-year-old Danish boy doing research for a history class found the wreckage of a German World War II plane with the remains of the pilot in the cockpit.

一名14歲的丹麥男孩在爲歷史課做研究時，發現了一架第二次世界大戰時德制飛機的殘骸，機艙中還有駕駛員的遺體。

Daniel Kristiansen and his father, Klaus, discovered what's believed to be a Messerschmitt fighter plane buried in a field on their farm near Birkelse in northern Denmark.

丹尼爾·克里斯蒂安森和他的爸爸克勞斯，在位於丹麥北部的他們家的比克爾瑟農場的一塊地上發現了一架據稱是梅塞施米特戰鬥機的殘骸。

"We went out to the field with a metal detector," Klaus Kristiansen told CNN. "I hoped we might find some old plates or something for Daniel to show in school."

爸爸克勞斯·克里斯蒂安森在接受CNN採訪時表示：“我們帶着一塊金屬探測器來到地裏，希望可以找到一些舊盤子等物品讓丹尼爾可以拿到學校展示。”

Instead, they found bits of plane debris. So they borrowed an excavator from a neighbor and dug down seven or eight meters.

沒想到他們發現了一些飛機殘骸。因此他們跟鄰居借了挖土機，往下挖掘了7到8米。

"At first we were digging up a lot of dirt with metal fragments in it. Then we suddenly came across bones and pieces of clothes," Kristiansen said. "It was like opening a book from yesterday."

克里斯蒂安森說道：“一開始我們挖出一堆混雜金屬碎片的泥土，隨後突然就找到一具骨骸和衣服殘骸，感覺就好像打開了一本歷史書。”

Kristiansen remembered being told by his grandfather, who lived on the farm during World War II, that a German plane had crashed there.

克里斯蒂安森記得，在二戰時期住在這座農場上的祖父曾告訴過他，有架德國飛機於二戰時墜機在此。

"We think it was around November or December 1944," he said.

他說：“我們認爲墜機應該是發生在1944年的11月或12月。”

But he also said his grandfather had told him the German occupying force had removed the plane. "I mainly thought it was just a good story."

不過他也表示，他記得祖父後來告訴他，德軍佔領軍已經移走了這架班機。“因此我覺得這只是個有趣的故事”。

The curator at the Historical Museum of Northern Jutland, which now has the pilot's possessions and the remains of the plane, believes his team will soon be able to confirm the man's identity.

北日德島歷史博物館的館長表示，現在有了駕駛員的遺物和飛機上的殘骸，相信很快就可以確認駕駛員的身份。

"We found the pilot's papers, and I think we have a name," Torben, curator and head of archaeology at the museum, said.

博物館館長兼考古學負責人託本表示：“我們找到了駕駛員的證明，我相信我們能確認他的名字。”