"HIS PLANE CRASHED IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA"
Joe Biden suggested his war hero uncle may have been eaten by cannibals after his plane crashed over Papua New Guinea in World War II.
Biden said in a speech yesterday that there were many cannibals in the area where his uncle Ambrose J. Finnegan's plane crashed in the 1940s and that his uncle's remains were never found.
However, according to the Daily Maily, Biden's statement was inconsistent with Pentagon records showing that the plane was not "shot down" as he said.
According to the US Department of Defense Pentagon, it was a courier flight that suffered engine failure and crashed into the ocean off Papua New Guinea on May 14, 1944. His uncle was a passenger, not a pilot.
Biden made the "cannibal" comments on a trip to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he visited a war memorial named after his relative known to the family as "Uncle Bosie."
Biden said: (Bosie) was shot in an area where there were a lot of cannibals at the time. They never found his body. But while I was there, the government went back and they checked and found parts of the plane and so forth.
