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27th Aug 2008, 23:50
Cec Randal? :hmm: :}
ABC NEWS
By PNG correspondent Steve Marshall
Posted 2 hours 32 minutes ago
Updated 2 hours 28 minutes ago
Soldiers on the Kokoda trail.
Conflict: Australian soldiers on the Kokoda Track during World War II. (ABC TV: Lateline)
Australian, US and Japanese authorities are investigating the discovery of what is thought to be the skeleton of a World War II pilot along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea.
Hikers say they discovered the skeleton hanging from the jungle canopy halfway along the 96-kilometre historic World War II path.
Guide David Collins from Melbourne's No-Roads trekking company was there.
"It's swinging like somebody caught in a tree and that's when you can really see the cabling and it's the exact shape of a body, same size, everything, but it's just covered in moss," he said.
"It's exactly what it looks like, just somebody caught in a harness, in a seat harness."
Australian, US and Japanese authorities will check records to see if any pilots were reported missing in that area.
ABC NEWS
By PNG correspondent Steve Marshall
Posted 2 hours 32 minutes ago
Updated 2 hours 28 minutes ago
Soldiers on the Kokoda trail.
Conflict: Australian soldiers on the Kokoda Track during World War II. (ABC TV: Lateline)
Australian, US and Japanese authorities are investigating the discovery of what is thought to be the skeleton of a World War II pilot along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea.
Hikers say they discovered the skeleton hanging from the jungle canopy halfway along the 96-kilometre historic World War II path.
Guide David Collins from Melbourne's No-Roads trekking company was there.
"It's swinging like somebody caught in a tree and that's when you can really see the cabling and it's the exact shape of a body, same size, everything, but it's just covered in moss," he said.
"It's exactly what it looks like, just somebody caught in a harness, in a seat harness."
Australian, US and Japanese authorities will check records to see if any pilots were reported missing in that area.