A PNG pilot?
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A PNG pilot?
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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.
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Wasn't Cec supposed to be heading south-west from Wasu ?, although one rumour at the time had it that Ronald Biggs was on board so could have been in any direction. Biggs later found in South America . Made a good rumour at the time like others such as.......
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Last edited by HANOI; 29th Aug 2008 at 01:32.
