Lost in Shangri-La previously unpublished information.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
Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings and leads them back to Paradise for "War." In the culminating battle, Logos accidentally stabs Extasis, and she dies in his arms. At one point in the story, the Choir of Angels performed a version of "Lux Aurumque" with modified lyrics. The Carnegie Hall performance on June 15, 2010 included a greatly altered story (Logos and Extasis are now lovers, not brother and sister, more choral singing, and was produced as a one act concert). Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings is a musical work of theatre, with music by composer Eric Whitacre, lyrics by Whitacre