Lost in Shangri-La previously unpublished information. The airplane started from Hollandia in Netherlands New Guinea (at the time part of Netherlands Indies, nowadays Indonesia) as a pleasure flight over a remote valley in New Guinea with 24 passengers, but only three people survived the crash: WAC corporal Margaret Hastings, sergeant Kenneth Decker and lieutenant John McCollom. They were later rescued by paratroopers who carried them out in gliders. The name "Shangri-La" was given by the press, lifted from the 1933 novel "Lost Horizon". The "Gremlin" in the plane's name was borrowed from the myth of Gremlins, which are often associated to mishaps and
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