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390 - The Qantas Bomb Heist

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Qantas Pays $500,000 Ransom to Man Who Threatened to Blow Up a Hong Kong Bound Airliner With 128 People Aboard

Police throughout Australia are hunting for a man who called himself Mr. Brown when he staged the gigantic bomb hoax against Australia's overseas airline. The plane touched down safely at 6.45 p.m. to a massive greeting by pressmen and onlookers. A Qantas spokesman said, we had to treat it as a serious matter. Proceed on the assumption that the threat was real. We thought it might have been a hoax, but we were not prepared to take the risk. He described the ransom as brilliantly conceived and cleverly executed.

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