Zitat:BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese explorers began Thursday to salvage a wrecked fighter plane used by the "Flying Tigers" during World War II from Dianchi Lake in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Yan Jiangzheng, chairman of the China Expedition Association, who is in charge of the operation, said efforts would be made in the next five days to detect the site of the wreckage and the geological structure at the bottom of the lake, which covers over 300 square kilometers.