Fed: Wife fears husband was on missing Kokoda flight

AAP General News (Australia)
08-12-2009
Fed: Wife fears husband was on missing Kokoda flight

MELBOURNE, Aug 11 AAP - A Victorian woman fears her husband is among 13 people aboard
a plane missing in rugged terrain in the Papua New Guinea Highlands.

Bendigo woman Shonia Holliday said she was worried her husband Peter Holliday, 28,
was in the plane that went missing en route to the Kokoda Track on Tuesday morning, The
Age newspaper has reported.

Mrs Holliday, 24, who has had two children with her husband, said he and his cousin
made the trip to honour their grandfather, who fought at Kokoda during World War II.

The bank department manager had been training for the nine-day trek, she said.

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KEYWORD: PNG PLANE HOLLIDAY

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