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...Er, indeed "Yes", . I stay well away from those.....
The BUKA Island find has existed since 2005 and I recall an article in the PNG Post-Guria circa 2008 which described the wreck and its' box of gold protected by a very large sea snake.
I also seem to recall one photobraph of a mainwheel and tyre assembly off of the wreck which was not a small diameter hub and a balloon type tyre. U.S. Researchers into losses of WWII aircraft in that area concliuded that the wreck was a missing Lockheed Ventura known to have gone down somewhere near to the BUKA Passage. There was a USN Squadron of the type further down to the south pf Bougainville Island that were radar equipped.
It is interesting that the US Group have had divers down there but have not brought up one piece of the wreck that would identify it. If it was the Earhart Electra just one of the fuselage LHS refuelling panels with two QR fasteners would raise my unterest .
Last edited by David Billings; 27th Jan 2019 at 02:23.