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Papua New Guinea.....

Posted by Tony on Mon Dec 10, 2001 10:20:23 AM

I found a thread, that talked about another cretin offering "large cash rewards" in exchange for information on downed aircraft in PNG. Then I found this on Pacific Wrecks..

The Lae Scrapyard
Report from Malcom Black, Australia

The pile of scrap at Lae was gathered illegally by a PNG national. This angered several Australians working for Melbourne businessman who have been quietly exporting aircraft wreckage from PNG for the past several years, including buried wreckage at Finshhafen. They had permission from the National Museum to do this, and they have been selling the aircraft and components in the United States.

There are major aggrieved parties in all of this who are trying to prevent the scrapping proceed, and they have issued a court order against the PNG national. There is much bitterness here, which goes back to a legal fight over a recovered P-38 from Faita several years ago (Jarrett / Leahy). Leahy was the clear loser.

There are lies and deceptioin everywhere, but the bottom line is that the operation is being done for profit, regardless of what the PNG authorities are being told. The option at present seems to be that the items are either scrapped or sold to highest bidder.

Several of the Australians have been threatened by landowners for refusing to pay compensation. Either way the wrecks lose.

"Quietly exporting?"
In other words raping the Island silly, after telling the museum he "only wanted a couple of bits"


Tony
(My views are known)

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