Lost in Shangri-La previously unpublished information.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
Stranger in Paradise (novel) ago, only to discover her new husband was a homosexual that only married her for her money. Her husband then threatens to humiliate her publicly if she divorces him. Fearing this, she stays married to him and watches him squander her fortune over the next decade, mostly on his boyfriend. Jesse steps in and intimidates the husband into giving her a quiet divorce. Stranger in Paradise (novel) Stranger in Paradise is a 2008 crime novel by Robert B. Parker, the seventh in his Jesse Stone series. In "Stranger in Paradise", Wilson "Crow" Cromartie from "Trouble in Paradise" returns to the