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by Gryphonn
Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:44 pm
Forum: Wrecks & Losses
Topic: Wreck found by oil search crew in 1973/4 PNG Highlands?
Replies: 3
Views: 7271

More information

Hi again all I have a little more information about the discovery of that plane wreck. The company my father worked for was Digicon. I am fairly sure they worked the Sepik and Fly River areas. All chopper fuel, supplies etc were carried up and downstream on native long boats or aluminium 'river truc...
by Gryphonn
Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:42 am
Forum: Wrecks & Losses
Topic: Wreck found by oil search crew in 1973/4 PNG Highlands?
Replies: 3
Views: 7271

Re: Correction, 1974-75 going by slide dates

Hi all In 1973-76 (IIRC), my father Noel Griffin (now deceased), was a Party Manager for an oil search company in the North Western area of PNG. Around 1974 one of the oil search crew found an aircraft wreck while hand cutting a seismic line through thick jungle. I was only 11 at the time, so didn'...
by Gryphonn
Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:14 am
Forum: Wrecks & Losses
Topic: Wreck found by oil search crew in 1973/4 PNG Highlands?
Replies: 3
Views: 7271

Wreck found by oil search crew in 1973/4 PNG Highlands?

Hi all In 1973-76 (IIRC), my father Noel Griffin (now deceased), was a Party Manager for an oil search company in the North Western area of PNG. Around 1974 one of the oil search crew found an aircraft wreck while hand cutting a seismic line through thick jungle. I was only 11 at the time, so didn't...