Still from ROV video

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

Could have been used to hack whatever this box of tricks is out the wreckage...

[Ted G Campbell]

Jeff,
On picture "axe3.jpg" middle right of picture - appears to have been outlined in red.

On picture " axe2.jpg " middlel left no outline but visiable

On picture " axe.jpg " middle left no outline but visiable

Ted Campbell

[richie conroy]

what is visible ?

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

This video clip has some similarities with the wreckage on the reef face at Niku. The main difference of course is that it is on a benign flat sea bed not the steep side of a seamount reef. Even so there isn't much left of the outline of an aircraft, just bits of it here and there.

http://youtu.be/fnhIHjUDScw

http://inadiscover.com/danaos/2008-Aircraft.html

[C.W. Herndon]

Jeff, on the side bar of the first video you listed is a very interesting video called "Plane lost in WW2 found". If you haven't already, check it out.

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

Jeff, on the side bar of the first video you listed is a very interesting video called "Plane lost in WW2 found". If you haven't already, check it out.

On looking up the Lockheed Hudson history Woody I was amazed at how many Lockheed models between the model 10 and the Hudson there were flying around Papua New Guinea during and before the war.

[C.W. Herndon]

Other than the type of engines one could have easily been mistaken for an Electra also.

Since they were made in the same factory could this be the source of the mysterious tag?

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

Is there a wing tank fuel filler cap where this guy is standing or, were both the wing tanks filled from where they are in the image?

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

Mr T's plane?

[Tom Swearengen]

that looks like a T handle for a pull cable.

[C.W. Herndon]

Jeff, now that I have looked more closely at the item you marked, I think there is more to the picture. The surrounding area, under your arrow and to the right, looks like it could be an electrical circuit out of something like a radio, maybe? Naw, couldn't be that. Must just be shiney little chunks of coral on a rectangular base.

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

Woody, the T is sitting inside some sort of circle (mini stonehenge, we debated stonehenge before ;D )
I will put up some images of the circle later. It is located between the theorised wing root and the theorised engine.
Not written in stone, could be lumps of coral/Elvis etc...

[John Joseph Barrett]

Jeff,  the key is literally that, finding ut what kind of fuel caps were in use, where they were located, and what type of key was needed to open them. Being an aircraft, I would presume that the fillers were flush with the wings/fuselage and would need to have some type of key to open them. On my old boat I had a key that was basically a small handle for leverage that had two knubs protruding from the bottom that inserted into two holes in the filler cap. I'm thinking that a 'T' shape in a filler cap might be needed to give one a bit more to grip with the key to seal the filler tightly. I, too, see a 'T' within a circle. I've done lots of diving around coral and haven't yet seen anything like that.  LTM, who hated losing her key.  -John

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

Thanks John. We are trying for more information on the exact location of the wing tanks filling ports. There was one behind the engine in the nacelle/cowl area as shown in the image I posted of a chap re-fuelling the Electra. Whether there was one between the main wing root and the engine remains to be seen. lamentably it shold be noted that there were and are an awful lot of planes with wing tank filling ports in that location. Hadn't thought about the filler cap idea, good thinking, will look into that. Just posted the Mr T bit to inject some humour ;D but, it's worth a dig around.

[Greg Daspit]

Mr T's plane?

Looks like a small gold cup left of the rock, just below the red clump.