She had two other stories, neither related to bones or airplanes. One of her stories, about a ghost, is familiar to us from other sources. The feathers for the lures came from roosters and the fish hooks came from the store. These exchanges provide interesting insights into the island folklore and the peoples' attempts to explain it. No one interviewed was aware of a story about an airplane on Gardner, but neither did everyone know the bone story.
Some people know some stories.
Other people know others. That is hardly surprising. It is certainly possible that there was an airplane story that simply didn't get passed along to anyone now living on Vaghena. There was some speculation that the skeletons might be those of victims of the Norwich City disaster. Mereki is aware of the Sydney crash and attributes to that source objects on Gardner, such as the comb, made from airplane debris.