He thought he landed in a wheat field
At that moment, the pilot realized that he didn’t have much time to make an emergency landing. Unable to reach Papua New Guinea’s capital at Port Moresby, Eaton was approaching the Owen Stanley Mountains when he saw what he believed to be large fields of wheat in the lowlands of Oro Province. In fact, however, the “wheat” was marsh grass three meters high
He thought he landed in a wheat field
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They landed in the wilderness of Papua New Guinea
Miraculously, the plane landed without the crew suffering any major injuries. But now they were stranded in the middle of nowhere. So they wandered for days starving and exhausted through the remote wilderness of Papua New Guinea, ravaged by mosquitoes and cooked by the sun.
They landed in the wilderness of Papua New Guinea
