Normally, once you reach a certain level of experience you are pretty safe. Not in PNG though. Someone with thousands of hours and years in the country can go to work and on that particular day the holes in the swiss cheese line up resulting in a fatal accident.
There are so many traps waiting, from false gaps in the ranges to temperature and dew point suddenly closing. In less than three months up there I remember two bad accidents. Looking for a crashed aircraft and the subsequent recovery of the bodies isn't something I ever want to repeat.
Years on, and now surrounded by more safety features than I could ever have imagined before, I still feel for those aviators risking their lives in the highlands.
