1971: A con man holds a plane load of passengers to ransom and shocks the Australian aviation industry.
Richard Roxburgh takes a deep dive into the events of that fateful day.
On May 26th, Qantas flight 755 takes off on a routine flight from Sydney to Hong Kong.
A man called Mr Brown telephones. He wants half a million dollars – or else 'the plane will blow up'.
The public watch the sky above Sydney as a 707 circles in a holding pattern for hours.
Bomb experts are called in as QF 755’s fuel runs dangerously low.
Guests: Allan Hogan, Jim Eames, Carmel Guerra, Tonina Guerra and Rita Leonardi
Special thanks: Scott Hicks, Adam Shand and Bryan Cockerill
Narrator – Richard Roxburgh
Producer - Ros Bluett
Sound engineer - Russell Stapleton
Music – Russell Stapleton and Matthew Crawford
Artwork – Lachlan Conn
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Peter Macari the Qantas hoaxer