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. In the 1971 incident, Peter Macari extorted $500,000 from Australian airline

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, threatening to blow up flight 755 from

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on 26 May 1971.

actively tried to stop the film being made and despite failing to do so,

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, which had invested A$250,000 in the film, refused to air it. The film was eventually released on video in 1990.

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