With school starting today i had my first business class which was fabulous and got me really excited about it all again. One of our main cast studies this term will be about Qantas and so i have been doing a little research tonight. As i was searching through there biography on wikipedia i came across this and thought one might find it as funny as i did. Oh and before you read this, i also found out that due to Qantas getting new parts and their planes fixed in china there accidents ( incidents as they refer to them ) have increased to more than any other time. Other than when they were shot down in WW2.  Extortion attempts On 26 May 1971, Qantas received a call from a “Mr. Brown” claiming that there was a bomb planted on a Hong Kong-bound jet and that he wanted $500,000 in unmarked $20 bills. He was treated seriously when he directed police to an airport locker where a functional bomb was found. Arrangements were made to pick up the money in front of the head office of the airline in the heart of the Sydney business district. Qantas paid the money and it was collected, after which Mr. Brown called again, advising the ‘bomb on the plane’ story was a hoax. The initial pursuit of the perpetrator was bungled by the New South Wales Police Forcewho, despite having been advised of the matter from the time of the first call, failed to establish adequate surveillance of the pick-up of the money. Directed not to use their radios (for fear of being “overheard”), the police were unable to communicate adequately.[114] Tipped off by a still-unidentified informer, the police arrested an Englishman, Peter Macari,[115] finding more than $138,000 hidden in an Annandale property. Convicted and sentenced to 15 years in jail, Macari served nine years before being deported to Britain. Over $224,000 has still not been found. The 1985 telemovie “Call Me Mr. Brown”, directed by Scott Hicks and produced by Terry Jennings, relates to this incident.

With school starting today i had my first business class which was fabulous and got me really excited about it all again. One of our main cast studies this term will be about Qantas and so i have been doing a little research tonight. As i was searching through there biography on wikipedia i came across this and thought one might find it as funny as i did.

Oh and before you read this, i also found out that due to Qantas getting new parts and their planes fixed in china there accidents ( incidents as they refer to them ) have increased to more than any other time. Other than when they were shot down in WW2. 

Extortion attempts

On 26 May 1971, Qantas received a call from a “Mr. Brown” claiming that there was a bomb planted on a Hong Kong-bound jet and that he wanted $500,000 in unmarked $20 bills. He was treated seriously when he directed police to an airport locker where a functional bomb was found. Arrangements were made to pick up the money in front of the head office of the airline in the heart of the Sydney business district. Qantas paid the money and it was collected, after which Mr. Brown called again, advising the ‘bomb on the plane’ story was a hoax. The initial pursuit of the perpetrator was bungled by the New South Wales Police Forcewho, despite having been advised of the matter from the time of the first call, failed to establish adequate surveillance of the pick-up of the money. Directed not to use their radios (for fear of being “overheard”), the police were unable to communicate adequately.[114] Tipped off by a still-unidentified informer, the police arrested an Englishman, Peter Macari,[115] finding more than $138,000 hidden in an Annandale property. Convicted and sentenced to 15 years in jail, Macari served nine years before being deported to Britain. Over $224,000 has still not been found. The 1985 telemovie “Call Me Mr. Brown”, directed by Scott Hicks and produced by Terry Jennings, relates to this incident.

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