Inquiry retraces events of flight

THE PNG Defence Force Board of Inquiry last Friday visited the Defence Air Transport Wing (ATW) at the Jackson Airport where joint operations commander Col Vagi Oala led them to “retrace” the events between Oct 9 and 10 last year prior to flying fugitive lawyer Julian Moti to Munda in the Solomon Islands.
The Defence Force Board of Inquiry invited the media to accompany them on the tour.
The tour began at about 3pm with the initial briefing of the inquiry panel and staff headed by Justice Gibbs Salika in the ATW boardroom, followed by the inspections of the hanger in which the CASA code-named 502, which undertook the clandestine mission on Oct 10, was parked amongst six other Defence Force aircraft.
The other aircraft in the hanger were another CASA, two aircraft from the Sandline affairs, and two Arava aircraft.
The inquiry panel was also shown the flight logbook in which entries were made of the flight on the early hours of Oct 10 last year.
The logbook showed that the CASA flight 502 used 4,000 litres of fuel to carry out the job.
The flight logbook also showed records of the CASA flight preparing for the Munda flight with entries made 10:31pm on Oct 9, 2006.
The panel was told that the clandestine flight to Munda took exactly six hours and six minutes, as shown on the ATW logbook.

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