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390 - The Qantas Bomb Heist

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Qantas and the Bomb Hoax

Qantas asked Pilot William Selwyn to retrain as a pilot on the newly introduced 747s, but he decided that retirement was a better option and stopped work at the end of 1971. He then moved to Bendigo in Victoria where he lived to the age of 87, having enjoyed nearly four decades of retirement. There was also a movie titled Call Me Mr. Brown released in 1986 by Scott Hicks and starred Chris Haywood. Channel 10 invested a quarter of a million in the making of the film, I think about a quarter of the budget in the end didn't even air it. Apparently, Qantas tried to stop the film being made. Possibly because Qantas bought the

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