Amelia Earhart

There has been much printed about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart after leaving Lae on the 2nd of July, 1937. Much of it has been generated by an ex-Air Niugini engineer by the name of Dave Billings who has spent many, many years trying to find the elusive wreck.

see the latest article on this subject here -- http://www.aerohub.co.nz/?p=632 -- and some of the other articles here --
http://ameliaearhartandpng.blogspot.com/2008/08/search-for-amelia-earhart-continues-71.html
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/07/dayintech_0702
http://kellyisbetterthanmichelle.blogspot.com/2008/08/amelia-earhart.html
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/03/amelia_earhart_you_have_to_think_like_a.php

Airline Security Scare

Radio Australia's Firmin Nanol reports that police in PNG's Western Highlands province found a rocket launcher and nine grenades in a traveller's baggage. The passenger arrived at Mt Hagen's Kagamuga airport via a light plane from Kikori in the Gulf province recently.

In another incident Air Niugini management confirmed that a grenade had been found in a passenger seat pocket on a flight between Buka, Rabaul, Lae and Port Moresby. The national airline has immediately taken steps to boost the checking of planes and luggage in the interests of passenger safety, including sending marshals on every flight to and from Buka.

see -- http://malumnalu.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-terrible-way-for-papua-new-guinea_05.html
see also -- http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/200901/2459446.htm -- and -- http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/programguide/stories/200901/s2459473.htm

PX Boeing B757 - P2-ANB

Air Niugini has taken delivery of a Boeing B757 from Icelandair.


The official welcoming, blessing and ribbon cutting ceremony took place at around 10am on the 20th of December 2008.


P2-ANB - msn 29312

PX Boeing 767

The Air Niugini Boeing B767 was found to have an engine problem during an inspection in Hong Kong. Engineers are working to rectify the problem so the plane can be back in service to help move passengers during the busy festive season. Another Boeing B757 (msn 29312 - P2-ANB ex TF-FIY) is expected to arrive from Icelandair shortly to help the airline cope. In the meantime Air Niugini has been able to keep the schedule on track by using Fokker F100's on the Port Moresby to Brisbane service and return.

Vale Jeremy Cook

It is with extreme sadness that I must report that Jeremy Cook, an aircraft engineer that spent time with Talair at Goroka and Air Niugini in Moresby many years ago was killed when an Air New Zealand Airbus A320 went down off the coast of France. Jeremy was working for the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand at the time. In his role at CAA he processed the entry of aircraft into the New Zealand civil aviation system, assessing applications for the issue or change to aircraft airworthiness certificates.

Let us also remember his fellow New Zealanders - Captain Brian Horrell, Noel Marsh, Murray White, Michael Gyles and the two pilots from Germany who were also on board. A spokesman for XL Airways which had leased the plane off Air New Zealand said the company would not release the names of the two German crewmen out of respect for the victims and their families.