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At the suggestion of aviation project members, I have moved PK-AFV to the new titole.

I also considered moving it to a title like 1942 Australia diamonds robbery, as the loss of the cargo is what gets the most attention about this incident.

However, I believe that the death of civilian passengers when was PK-AFV Pelikaan was deliberately shot down would, from an objective point of view, generally be regarded as more historically significant.

Grant | Talk 03:27, 11 July 2011 (UTC) reply

I think this article would benefit from some more context. The shootdown happened at the end of resistance of the Dutch East Indies to the Japanese and it seems more a fleeing flight than a regular airliner.-- Pere prlpz ( talk) 13:01, 23 December 2016 (UTC) reply

After reading this article, I believe that an error was made. According to documents I received from KLM -(Peter Offerman, External Communications, 1992), the radio operator on this aircraft was not Jo Muller but my father, Arthur Edward Misdale. The letter stated (partly): "the flight took place on March 4, 1942 and was operated by the Douglas DC-3 with the registration PK-AFV. The captain was Ivan Smirnoff. The radio operator (your husband) managed to repair the radio but his first signal was intercepted by the Japanese who attacked the survivors again." 110.150.50.254 ( talk) 01:09, 17 January 2022 (UTC) reply