Tinpis, your post #3588
Re that lighie that came apart in the Vitiaz Strait. It happened in the mid sixties. I was in Hagen at the time when a police inspector based in Hagen was transferred to New Britain (Rabaul/Kimbe?). His name was John Collet, I think, and he owned a Piper Colt. Enroute to New Britain, with his wife, the aircraft was lost over the Vitiaz Strait. No one knows what happened, although in cases like this there were lots of theories at the time. The only wreckage found was the aircraft's nosewheel floating in the sea.