Tinpis #2109
Tinpis,
The aircraft was a Piper Colt VH-ROC owned and flown by Inspector John Collett, a good copper transfering over to New Britain from Mount Hagen with wife and dog onboard. August 1970.
John was a ppl and many of us tried to convince him not to go until the weather improved around Lae and the Vitiaz. All that was found was the nose wheeel some months later. Not sure if turbulence broke him up or just control loss due non IFR.