Salvage Operation
Tallichet, who served in the military at the time, had co-piloted a similar type of aircraft to the one that the soldiers uncovered on Papua New Guinea. Tallichet was a master of four-engined bombers.
Fred Hagen, David Tallichet Jr. and others began planning to recover the aircraft in 1989. Hagen said to South California Public Radio that it was his greatest dream. Because for some reason, it captured the imaginations of people around the globe …”
