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March 29: Singapore to Jakarta in Indonesia (516 miles)
Maurice didn't care for the island of Sumatra, which seemed to be under two feet of water. He kept thinking of having to ditch, flipping over, and drowning with his feet still dry. In the end, the only problem was that he lost radio contact with Jakarta and was overdue, and the Indonesians (not realizing that G-KIRK is always overdue) scrambled a search & rescue aircraft to look for him. Meanwhile, convinced that her husband would indeed reach Australia, Kirstie set out with their daughter Genevieve to meet him--with a two-year-old in tow, a flight almost as impressive as what Maurice was attempting.
March 30: Jakarta to the island of Bali (530 miles)
"They flew across the mountains of Java where, in bad weather, M attempted to film volcanoes. Again, he ran out of daylight as he headed towards Bali. As he continued over jungle M saw a graveyard of WW II aircraft.... He landed on what turned out to be a military airfield (again!). After a "standard grilling" /questioning? (he's now well practiced and somewhat blase)M was taken by staff car to a very good hotel and given a conducted tour of the town by military personnel."
The description fits Malang airbase , it's was previously a Japanese WW2 base and is surrounded by mountains and 2 towering volcanos , elevation 1,800ft and is on the way to Bali from Central Java. It's a transport base now with C130s and CASA 212s
There are no aircraft graveyards there now that I have seen or heard about.
There was a lot of A-26s, B-25s and Albatross there, some were kept and made into monuments , some sold to the US I heard , the rest were scrapped.
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