B-17F Crash in PNG

[cooper9411]

The National Park Service could and has granted permission to people/organizations to recover aircraft within the parks property, with a whole lot of rules and regulations. Most aircraft that went down within park property has already been stripped of pieces and parts from "souvenir hunters".

[the330thbg]

yah.., not sure how the Parks Department in Papua New Guinea works?

Most likely not to well.

[jdvoss]

FWIW, Allen G. Blue's book "The B-24 Liberator", p.163 illustrates the wreck of a B-24D also laying in Bootless Inlet. The photo is dated July 13, 1944 and the aircraft appears to be laying in a similar depth of water as the B-17 illustrated above.

[cooper9411]

Very unlikely that there is anything left of either plane. Locals probably scrapped what they could or the saltwater dissolved it.

[CDF]

yah.., not sure how the Parks Department in Papua New Guinea works? Most likely not to well.

Exactly, in particular when you have two sides of the politics claiming power .....
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/png-leader ... ol-4657412