After seing one abandoned plane in Iceland in the middle of the snow, I felt in love with this kind of places! There are many abandoned plane wrecks in the world, and this one is beautiful because it's located in the most jungle unexplored country in the world. The Talasea Plane Wrecks are found in an area to the west of Kimbe Town in West New Britain, a really remote region.
So, what is the story of this planes? One of them was a WWII american B-25H bomber that should do fly-over patrols around
Bougainville to keep watch for any Japanese threats. This specific
bomber was tasked with a patrol over the southern coast of New Britain
in search of any ships bringing in Japanese supplies. The bomber spotted several barges and supply ships and successfully
destroyed them. However, during the flight, there was an engine failure.
Talasea airfield was the nearest airstrip to make an emergency landing.
The aircraft managed to land really damaged but all the crew survived and could go away. One week after the B-25H made its an emergency landing, the Lockheed
Venture NZ4522 was on a mission to bomb an airstrip located near Rabaul.
After dropping several bombs on the target, one of the engines cut out.
The Lockheed Ventura was now flying on one engine and couldn’t make it
back to Bougainville Island so the call was made to make an emergency
landing at Talasea airstrip. The landing was made with no injuries to
those on board.
How to visit:
Papua New Guinea is known for one of the world's wildest places, extremely expensive and with no security and a lot of indigenous tribes. Well, that's all true, but that's what makes it so worth visiting, right? Just be careful because, if I say it's dangerous, it's really dangerous... Rapes, cold blood murderer... Just try not to go out at night and have other person with you all the time.
Most visitors stay at Walindi
Plantation Resort to dive and to stay in a cute bungalow, so, if you're
that type of traveller, yes you should really stay here. To get to Kimbe Bay you will need to fly into Hoskins Airport and then
get the Walindi Private Shuttle down to the resort. The resort has many tours to go to the plane wreck place.
There is no public
transport so if you were trying to visit without a stay at Walindi
Plantation, you would need to make all of your own plans regarding
transport and where to stay. It isn’t a very easy area for DIY due to
the remoteness.
Here I give you the site of the resort:
Happy journeys in Papua New Guinea!
