Authorities investigate Kokoda Track skeleton
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Australian, US and Japanese authorities are investigating the discovery of what's thought to be the skeleton of a World War Two pilot along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea.
Our PNG correspondent, Steve Marshall, reports hikers say they discovered the skeleton hanging from the jungle canopy halfway along the 96 kilometre historic World War Two path.
Guide David Collins from Melbourne's No-Roads trekking company was there.
"It's swinging like somebody caught in a tree and that's when you can really see the cabling and it's the exact shape of a body, same size everything, but it's just covered in moss," he said.
"It's exactly what it looks like .. just somebody caught in a harness, in a seat harness."
Australian, US and Japanese authorities will check records to see if any pilots were reported missing in that area.
