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A thread where ex PNG geriatrics lapuns and long longs can live in the dim distant past.
Where tall stories are accepted as fact. War stories are applauded. Grab a Brownie, pull up a story and join in a trip down memory lane!!! 
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PNG Ples Bilong Tok Tok
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Was having a beer with a mate the other night, who also worked in PNG, discussing RL, his very lucky escape in view of the location, hoping for his rapid recovery, and generally descending into a torpid stupor.
After quite a few, and beginning to suffer from memory loss (senior moments) we wondered if anybody had put together list of blokes who had flown in PNG, say from the 60's through to the 90's, and where they were now, still flying etc.
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After quite a few, and beginning to suffer from memory loss (senior moments) we wondered if anybody had put together list of blokes who had flown in PNG, say from the 60's through to the 90's, and where they were now, still flying etc.
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I helped to put a list together of all Talair pilots (that anyone could remember) for the last Talair reunion at Caloundra, but I don't feel it would be appropriate to post anywhere... privacy etc.
Then again, there maybe a Talair reunion website somewhere which contains all the names... including ground staff.
Then again, there maybe a Talair reunion website somewhere which contains all the names... including ground staff.
Peter Spencer
He's now 61, but in his younger days worked in the hotel and tourism industry in Papua New Guinea.
Apparently he was successful there, and ended up owning some hotels.
"Peter Spencer is a complicated and volatile character."
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The same Peter Spencer that "stormed" into my office in Cairns and blamed Air Niugini for all the social messes in PNG... and he was going to report me to the PM (Pius Wingti) for not upgrading him. I ask you, why bother with him!!
APNG Otter incidents ?
I heard that they bent two otters,one at Gobie and one somewhere else. This was over a month ago,the info come from an APNG engineer.
Given the nature of some of airstrips they operate into,I'm not suprised they don't have anymore serious incidents. I seem to recall that they were having problems a few years ago with nose gear bulkheads getting damaged,due to operating into very rough airstrips. They had two aircraft damaged at Gulgubip within 12 months of each other at on stage.
Given the nature of some of airstrips they operate into,I'm not suprised they don't have anymore serious incidents. I seem to recall that they were having problems a few years ago with nose gear bulkheads getting damaged,due to operating into very rough airstrips. They had two aircraft damaged at Gulgubip within 12 months of each other at on stage.
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Twin Otter
W.W I know about the Gulgubip incidents: the first one engineers missed a crack in the nose-wheel assembly, which failed one side of the split rim, nose leg dug in and retracted. The second I wont comment on. The crash yesterday I believe is pilot error. No casualties.
Foung this in todays National.
Plane crashes into Kikori garden
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FIVE people had a lucky escape when a Twin Otter plane crashed into a garden while taking off from an airstrip in Kikori, Gulf province around 3pm on Monday.
On board the plane were two pilots and three passengers, bound for Kerema, when the plane skidded off the airstrip.
No one was injured, but the aircraft suffered some damage to its nose cone.
Senior officials at the Civil Aviation Safety Authority said the plane was a commercial flight for Airlines PNG.
A full investigation into the crash will begin today, and will be conducted by both CASA and Airlines PNG.
No further details on the accident were available yesterday.
Plane crashes into Kikori garden
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FIVE people had a lucky escape when a Twin Otter plane crashed into a garden while taking off from an airstrip in Kikori, Gulf province around 3pm on Monday.
On board the plane were two pilots and three passengers, bound for Kerema, when the plane skidded off the airstrip.
No one was injured, but the aircraft suffered some damage to its nose cone.
Senior officials at the Civil Aviation Safety Authority said the plane was a commercial flight for Airlines PNG.
A full investigation into the crash will begin today, and will be conducted by both CASA and Airlines PNG.
No further details on the accident were available yesterday.
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The main reasons people have crashed Twin Otters at high speed on the ground in the past, have been because they tried to steer them with the tiller too long on take-off, or didn't have the nosewheel centred before putting it on the ground on landing. A 'captain' I knew once, even tried a couple of times to get airbourne with the park brake on.. Didn't lose it, even though the surface was moist, but he did wear a couple of flat spots on the mains when he finally aborted halfway along.. Co-pilot hadn't noticed it still on either..
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It wasn't an APNG flight at all, but the AC was hired from them.
It was apparently due to a sudden strong wind change.
According to one senior politician, we should expect that sort of thing to happen far more regularly, as the reason why all aircraft in PNG crash is because of climate change and global warming. we should all expect to see many more of the same sorts of accidents, and except it as one of the risks of flying in PNG.
CAA doesn't investigate crashes. that's the ATSB's job.
Seems that the Pollies are about as well informed as the press.
It was apparently due to a sudden strong wind change.
According to one senior politician, we should expect that sort of thing to happen far more regularly, as the reason why all aircraft in PNG crash is because of climate change and global warming. we should all expect to see many more of the same sorts of accidents, and except it as one of the risks of flying in PNG.
CAA doesn't investigate crashes. that's the ATSB's job.
Seems that the Pollies are about as well informed as the press.
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Make the co-pilots hold the ailerons into wind while taxiing, and in the early stages of the take-off even if it is not their sector. The captain has one hand on the tiller and the other on the power levers, and the co-pilot is often sitting there with mind in neutral, while a crosswind buffets the ailerons on the roll, and lifts a wing. Two crew operations must be done properly on the ground as well as in the air.