Oh dear, he is in a heap of trouble. To have ‘stumbled’ across the illegal removal of the wrecks, and then be arrested for ‘illegal entry’ sounds very much like he has crossed the wrong people.
I’ve seen the jail in Gizo, not a fun place. But they do let the prisoners out on Wednesday afternoons to play footy on the village green (or did 20 years ago when I was there!).
With any luck there will be some other, local presures brought to bear and he and his colleagues will escape incarceration – I am sure we all wish them the best.
As far as the scrap theory goes, I would have thought the planes are worth more to rich collectors than their scrap value, having taken the trouble to drag them out of the bush and transport them to China (or wherever).
DS
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