Accident certainly happened, apparently there were pictures on Facebook of people holding parts of wreckage in a river. I’m not on Facebook so I wouldn’t know where to start.
Unconfirmed repots are that the pilot may have ditched it in the Era River, fuselage hadn’t been found as of last night was the message that I got from one reliable source.
Operator was operating (or once did) under a CASA PNG Part 137 approval, which applies to ag operations in PNG.
It certainly is quite surprising that it hasn’t been reported in the Australian media as I’m pretty sure the pilot would have been an expat.
As mentioned in a previous post, the weather at the time in the area was crap, certainly not VMC I suspect, if so it would have been very marginal VMC.