25-05-2025
TODAY IN HISTORY: Mystery caller threatens to blow Qantas jet out the sky
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Qantas agreed to pay up, and 'Mr Brown' was handed a bag full of the cash in central Sydney.
A few minutes later he phoned authorities to tell them there was no bomb aboard, and they'd been duped. The Boeing 707 landed safely in Sydney.
In August 1971, English migrant Peter Macari was arrested over the bomb hoax.
He was later convicted to 15 years jail.
During the early 1980s, he was deported to Britain - on a Qantas plane.
