B-17F Crash in PNG

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:00 pm

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". :drink3:

the330thbg · **Joined:** Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:06 pm **Posts:** 2713

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

Most likely not to well. :shock:

jdvoss · **Posted:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:35 am

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 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:45 pm

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

CDF · **Posted:** Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:48 am

the330thbg wrote:

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

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

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