NSW DISCOVER VOUCHERS MAY BE USED FOR THIS EVENT - SEE SEE BELOW FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Former detective Duncan McNab is live and talking the 1971 Qantas Bombing, and over here from 6pm.
The 1971 Qantas Bombing
QF755 from Sydney to Hong Kong took off from Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport around 11am on Wednesday 26 May 1971. There were 133 people on board.
Shortly after midday, with the plane over Dalby in Queensland, Qantas’s deputy general manager Phil Howson took a phone call. ‘Call me Mr Brown’ said the English accented caller.
Mr Brown said there was bomb on board the Hong Kong flight. It would detonate when the plane descended below 6500 metres. For $500,000 (these days a bit over $3m) Brown would tell them where it was hidden and how to disarm it. Mr Brown was Peter Pasquale Macari, a ‘ten pound Pom’ – assisted immigrant -who’d arrived in Australia a few years before using a fake passport because of his sordid UK criminal past precluded emigration. Macari was also an habitué of Darlinghurst's’ The Wall’ aided by a pocketful of Qantas cash
But what neither police nor Qantas knew was they were also dealing with man who’d committed murder twice before. For Macari killing was as troubling as the choice between ordering his steak medium or well done.
Join Bnandy and Duncan in the rollicking true story of a thriller at 36,000 feet, murders, bungling police, missing bundles of cash, fast cars bad disguises and rent boys.
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