390 - The Qantas Bomb Heist
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The War on Terror
Qantas said established a direct radio link with Selwyn in the plane and were in regular contact while also working to raise the $500,000 in ransom money. Carrotis wrote, a Qantas executive wrote a check for $ 500,000 on the Reserve Bank and a dozen senior executives began counting and bagging the bundles of $20 notes,. which was the highest denomination of Australian currency at the time. To put into context how much half a million was, it's about six and a half million in today's money.
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