Myanmar Spitfire hunt 'like finding Tutankhamun's tomb' A team of experts are to fly from Britain to Myanmar to begin the excavation of a hoard of buried World War II Spitfire aircraft, a treasure likened to "finding Tutankhamun's tomb". Project leader David Cundall has spent 16 years searching for the planes, believed to have been buried as deep as 10 metres below ground in 1945 by British and American forces. Images and soundbites