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