RUSSIAN PLANE TO BE RETURNED
’PILOT’S FLIGHT TO SWEDEN (Rec. 7 p.m.) STOCKHOLM. May 20. Sweden has agreed to return immediately the Soviet fighter aeroplane in which a Russian Air Force pilot landed here on Wednesday. It is believed that the Russians insist that the aeroplane be returned immediately because it contains secret instruments. Swedish Air Force experts have already studied the aeroplane carefully. The pilot has applied to live in Sweden as a political refugee.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25810, 23 May 1949, Page 3
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