An Australian helicopter pilot and two local contractors kidnapped at gunpoint in Papua New Guinea’s restive highlands escaped unharmed Monday, police and an aviation company spokesman said.
The trio were captured by a group of men on Monday afternoon near Mount Sisa, in central Hela Province, while working at a remote telecommunications tower.
After being “detained for several hours by armed locals”, a spokesman for the pilot’s employer Hevilift Aviation said, the three were now “safe”.
Just before being taken, the Australian pilot had used a satellite phone to contact his…
