The Qantas Bomb Hoax of 1971 was an audacious attempt to extort a large sum of cash from the airline. This infamous episode in Australian crime history is probably the down under equivalent of Britain’s Great Train Robbery.
And the perpetrators – Peter ‘Mr Brown’ Macari and his accomplice, Raymond Poynting – might have got away with it had it not been for their love of muscle cars.
Using the alias ‘Mr Brown’, Macari put a call into the Department of Civil Aviation. He told them an altitude bomb was hidden aboard Qantas Flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong, and it would explode when the aircraft descended below
