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
rescued
1945 New Guinea Gremlin Special rescue
Lost in Shangri-La