The Crazy Heist to Extort $3,000,000 from Qantas Airlines

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This is the story of the Most audacious heist in Australia's History. 1971 Qantas Heist of $500,000 by two men - Peter Macari and Raymond Poynting.
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Research & Writing: SideNote & Paul McDougal ( / paulmcdougal2 )
Editing: SideNote
Music by Tom Fox
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Beyond the Lows
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Visuals from 'Call me Mr. Brown (1986)'
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[@casperado666]

I genuinely like this kind of a crime story. No one was hurt, no one died.

[@knecht6974]

6 years ago there was a bank robbery in berlin: 45 meter long, 1.4m high tunnel in 4 meters depth, 120 tonnes of sand, a twist in it to lessen the noise, didnt trigger motion sensors, left no clues. Broke into 300 lockers. Police still have no idea. Sucks for the people that lost heirlooms, but otherwise no ones was hurt or anything.

[@SidenoteChannel]

Mental Health: Am I a Joke To You?

[@aasrt2]

Concidering the plane was still flying at only 15 minutes of fuel left when he revealed that there was no bomb, any small mistake or delay could have killed those 160 people on board. So this was a reckless crime or sure with little regard for the lives of those people.

[@alphabravo268]

This happend to PR434 NAIA Security didnt know he was making a van on-board, after they land to cebu to pick up more passengers and What happened? Well after taking off at Manila the man kept transferring to put on the bomb and i think it Exploded near the W. Philippine Sea and it was gonna do a route to Narita and i will be editing this and will find more info, and they emergency landed in Naha Airport

[@botchii3059]

It's like vanilla hentai; no NTR, no rape.

[@LuckayyAU]

he legit did the smartest thing ever and got the money, but did the dumbest thing ever by spending it all Damn Mr brown, you really stuffed that up

[@laurabowles]

That's the ironic thing about theft - you can get very rich, but you can't live like it!

[@mirzaahmed6589]

What was he supposed to do, never spend it? He did have at least $138,000 left.

[@LuckayyAU]

@@mirzaahmed6589 you could use it more sparingly instead of spending half of it at once

[@MrSebastiniposaunini]

@@laurabowles that's what money laundering is for

[@SidenoteChannel]

@@MrSebastiniposaunini Better Call Saul

[@project_calais4977]

Can I say personally, thank you for including the old Australia footage driving through the city. it was so nice to see all those classic Holden's and Ford's driving about, of which we made proudly in this country.

[@lesego20]

I wonder how much a penthouse on Bondi beach in 1973. Mans still had over $180,000 left over

[@PurplePinkRed]

I reckon it would have been more than plenty - Even in the 90s, the most sought after suburbs in Sydney and Melbourne had three bedroom townhouses going for less than $200,000.

[@salmonsalvation6441]

@@PurplePinkRed my dad was living in an apartment on the st kilda waterfront around that time for chump change I think it wouldn't have been that expensive plus thats when the aud was in full swing and worth the most

[@jl86_]

This is an interesting heist, pretty clever on how he used deception to his advantage What's not clever is throwing all that money away, from there he knew that he fucked up

[@arnoldhau1]

It often happens. But at least he did not really place a bomb on the aircraft and just tricked the airline.

[@sam08g16]

Really glad I found this channel, real quality content! Keep up the good work.

[@SidenoteChannel]

Thank you.

[@MakateRapulana]

Evidence KZbin knows what is good for you

[@Lufefe]

Moral of the story: Delay your gratification. He could’ve lived a comfortable middle class life, maybe open a business & not draw any attention.

[@joanolgakeine6971]

The biggest heist in my country is carried out by the government

[@SidenoteChannel]

The biggest heist in any country is carried out by the government officials.

[@joanolgakeine6971]

@@SidenoteChannel 💀💀💀💀

[@cloroxbleachsympathizerscb1184]

U from China?

[@sprintershepherd4359]

it the mining companies that are the biggest thieves in Australia . and the stupid public that keep voting the same idiots over and over again with the same conservative out dated policies ..

[@kap1526]

On the daily!

[@H00L3y]

6:42 pronounced "bond-eye" beach

[@MrBlazeDemingo]

I got so confused when the thumbnail actually thought it said "anime" heists. later I found out, It was airlines.

[@artyjaycayairlines]

Lol

[@nateassa222]

That was the smoothest sponsor transition I’ve ever seen. That was amazing

[@tommy_flies4508]

IF THE BOMB DETONATES AT A CERTAIN ALTITUDE THEN WHY DIDNT IT DEDONATE WHEN THEY TOOK OFF ???????!!!!!!!!!!

[@mobiledev6037]

Tommy Murray Programmed to activate only after reaching a certain altitude?

[@sprintershepherd4359]

because the guy obviously thought about that when he chose the altimeter . isnt it obvious ?

[@malikkelly]

Because it has to get past set altitude to activate

[@brazgazz]

If detonates after a set altitude then it will probably active after the same altitude.

[@room3757]

There's no other better villain name that I can think of than simply 'Mr Brown" :0

[@zartsnarf6096]

Lol true

[@BadassBobY]

Moral : When You get A Bomb, use it to Prank instead of using it to kill 👀

[@marioreithaar1175]

Glad to see you making videos again! Keep it up!

[@myanimatedlife830]

Imagine if the pilot said f*** that, im landing, and he lands safely and they don't give the money.

[@JM-id4nm]

I like how subtle you are at promoting Dashlane towards the end Lol. Awesome!

[@mastergamingnic1681]

I kinda wanna meet Mr Brown. He seems like a nice guy, though he might scam me, but I feel that that’s all he would wanna do. He doesn’t wanna hurt me, just wants my money.

[@mcearl8073]

MasterGaming Nic Sure, lets never mind the assault charges he escaped from.

[@xephren6557]

That $250,000 would be worthless now since australia changed its banknotes in the 80s

[@neilc7101]

It’s still legal tender. With 1 exception, all Australian coins and notes are. Granted if you have a 5 pound note from 1920 you would need to go to a bank but you could still get it converted.

[@eisa.q438]

This man bamboozled one of the biggest airline companies into giving him 500 thousand dollars

[@WildBillCox13]

What a story! Thanks for posting.

[@flanigan_a-go-go]

Absolutely BRILLIANT!! bravo mr. Brown

[@kingcuda3037]

interesting fact: my dad owned a 67 camaro during most of the 80's and 90's it was the one that Peter macari bought with the Mr brown bomb hoax money

[@RayyanAshraf]

Great content man! Well researched and explained. You deserve many more subscribers.

[@presmasterflash7555]

Just when I thought the heat was off this cash… I guess I’ll wait another couple years to start my spending spree… better safe than sorry, right?

[@ew2265]

Sorry but in Australia we dont say Bondi like bondee but we say it like bondeye beach

[@asjadazeez]

A movie about this needs to be made

[@DoubleMonoLR]

Um, did you watch the video? 8:13

[@evosagara]

The biggest prank in the history

[@NiteshKumar-tn8xt]

I would've ordered the flight crew to land immediately Because how is Mr. Brown supposed to deactivate the bomb aboard a plane from ground? He was obviously lying.

[@ciara2837]

DID YOU SAY BONDY BEACH LMAOOO for clarification, its Bond-eye, took me a second to decipher

[@petrulupu1817]

LOOLLL . In my country some dudes from parliament stole 51 mil euro XDDDD

[@paulsz6194]

Petru Lupu Romania? 🇷🇴

[@petrulupu1817]

@@paulsz6194 close , Republic of Moldova XDDD

[@maxhugen]

@@petrulupu1817 Sounds like a good topic for SideNote!

[@21stcenturyozman20]

@6:55 - Bondi (Beach) is pronounced BOND-eye, not rhyming with blondie.

[@7homas0wen]

6:55 “bondy beach”

[@ihsanchair]

What's atitude detector? Isn't just a common altimeter?

[@artyjaycayairlines]

?

[@gamergril5940]

I know where the missing $250,000 dollars is. He hid it in a wallaby's pouch

[@jgsp382]

HOw come the bomb didnt go off in the locker? it was clearly below the altitude it was suposed to detonate

[@pexadico]

10:01 that was perfect

[@gkid64]

Since when was the Australian dollar worth more than the American dollar?

[@Bruh168]

Did anyone else notice PP Macari? 😂

[@LmanTrojan1212]

Why did they give him money, how was he supposed to interact or turn the bomb off from the ground?

[@sadiakhan1819]

Same

[@stevensmith2220]

He would tell them where the bomb was

[@Ronaldineo777]

@8:57 Hey man, that's my password!

[@ANDR3A5]

Where and can i get your username

[@SidenoteChannel]

You don't need Dashlane. You have mastered the art already.

[@Ronaldineo777]

@SideNote Thank you kind sir 😂

[@CressKayEdge]

There is no way a device can detect airplane altitude up to 2,500 meters (8,200ft). Aircraft detects their altitude by using pitot tubes mounted outside of the aircraft structure to measure the air pressure and hence altitude. Inside the aircraft, the pressurization system will maintain cabin altitude pressure way below outside altitude pressure, usually at the range of 6,000 - 7,000 ft cabin altitude, for passenger's comfort.

[@scprojekt1896]

Lester really did it!

[@mirka9176]

6:55 did he just say bondee beach (it is pronounced with a "hard" I)

[@ATommy-cz1qc]

Like the popular UK and Ireland Macari takeaway fish and chip shop Macari?

[@tommyboi2986]

Nah, all my accounts have the same passwords, But a hacker could never know em’

[@ben_orr_]

I love how you pronounced Bondi beach

[@diablo09090909]

Why would anyone want to store their passwords to a third party cloud service?

[@rollvideo]

Remember this is the 70’s.

[@imjody]

They only got 7 & 15 years behind bars? What the fuck? 🙄

[@hugochau6735]

They coulda put a tracker, if those were invented that time

[@boxofturtles761]

Mr Brown watching this: 👀

[@deadfrominside698]

Lollll

[@Adomas_B]

Now we have RLL, HAI, Wendower and Sidenote

[@SidenoteChannel]

Love the sentiment but I believe, Wendover Production is a whole different league. RealEngineering, Mustard, Wendover, CGP Grey, Vox, kurzgesagt are some of the best explainer channels. All i do is story-telling.

[@Adomas_B]

@@SidenoteChannel The way that every channel visualizes the content is minimalistic and smooth animations, but also a little bit different, that's why I watch almost all of these chanels. I was referring more to the graphics side of the videos, but still thanks for pointing that out!

[@maxhugen]

@@SidenoteChannel Still, it's interesting story telling, and well done. :) Thanx!

[@marcussantamaria552]

are we gonna ignore the fact that his fish n chips shop is most likely a way for him to clean the other $250,000, of course if he did indeed hide it somewhere.

[@Behindyamom]

You watch do many movies you don’t need to clean 250k that’s chump change

[@kakela2883]

Sounds like a combination of Reservoir Dogs and Speed.

[@maxwalker1159]

I never knew this story and I’m from Sydney!

[@csjames69]

Not Bondee beach, it is Bond eye beach.

[@tdp2612]

Why would they even pay him though, if they still had to find the bomb and disable it themselves. Seems odd

[@sprintershepherd4359]

because he had the leverage . the police and quantus had none

[@XxXBlocPartyXxX]

Obviously you can pretty much only do this alone so I was wondering how he managed to get a bomb on board and then arming it while being on the ground, you gotta admit that's genius tho

[@tinglestingles]

I'm surprised they didn't divert to an airport over 1500 metres - - there are a number of high altitude airports in China now but I don't know if they were operational then?

[@XeZeGamster1o1]

Nice video I’d just like to mention that Bondi Beach is actually pronounced Bond Dye beach

[@Saitama-ur3lq]

*el avion de papel* coming up on netflix

[@drbgaming3472]

Reminds me of a db cooper

[@Quatuux]

4:50 for fuck's sake out of fuel does not mean you will crash!

[@alexm566]

Very smart guy.

[@wasifanowar_testrider]

But only 15 years of jail for a guy who put the lives of 133 people in danger! Wow the laws

[@thef.b.i7233]

It’s because he’s white

[@Bo1ticu5]

Am I the only one who Is irritated by the fact that the Qantas plane on the thumbnail does not exist. While it is indeed a 787 dreamliner. QANTAS has never operated a 787 with the livery shown in the thumbnail. Their 787s only came into operation after the qantas rebranding that changed the tail logo to a more minimalistic and modern kangaroo design that does not include the arms that can be seen on the livery shown on the thumbnail. On top of that apart from the airline, the plane shown in the thumbnail does not have any relation to the plane in the story. Anyway, apart from that great video.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

And more simply the Dreamliner was decades away from existing, when this happened in the 1970s :)

[@Liam_219]

“Qantas airlines” 😭

[@randomman3361]

It had to be put on while on the ground, or he himself must have been in the plane to turn it on. Which meant there was no way he could've planted a bomb, or was there a timer on the bomb? Am i missing something?

[@rollvideo]

But how does he call it off? (When the ransom has been paid?)

[@jackjin1623]

Bong-Die beach, even tho most people outside of stralia will read it bong-di

[@holyravioli5795]

That man was a genius before he spent all the money.

[@nickrollstuhlfahrerson8659]

Planes don’t just instantly crash into the ground when running out of fuel, that plane would definitely have been able to land safely.

[@sprintershepherd4359]

yep or blown up over Sydney on its approach to mascot airport

[@rajiv8899]

My father was on that flight

[@DH-rt3fk]

This guy definitely went to the Linus Tech Tips School of Smooth Sponsor Transitions.

[@brownman2.037]

What Mr Brown that look familiar

[@jakegargiulo5101]

Hahaha wow. Why have I never heard of this! EDIT: Wait wait wait, did he just say "Bondy Beach"? Hahahaha as if he hasn't heard of Bondi before.

[@edricklawrenceong7776]

They didn't even bother to launder their money? I mean seriously, all they had to do was buy and resell gold, jewelry, and art pieces worth just under $10,000 dollars (the minimum amount where entities have to report transactions) about 50ish times for the deed of sale, once they have the deeds, their blood money officially becomes legitimate income that in the eyes of the Australian government, and once they've paid their taxes, the thieves could've spent as much money as they pleased as successful "art and jewelry dealers"

[@carnivaltriumphhh3604]

Correction on on the bondy beach its not bondy its bondI witha I

[@JerKKeR]

Is Mr. Brown still operating that fish and chips shop?

[@GuardianKukai]

Raymond Poyntington

[@TRtraybloxeey]

Oh.......

[@Horizon301.]

So did he reside in Bristol or is that just the random picture of a southern city that you decided to use?

[@bostonbruins1760]

did the 747 explode

[@feelincrispy7053]

It's Bondi. Bon-dy

[@mattinsydney2627]

Great story but erm sat here laughing (in Sydney Australia) that you pronounced BONDI beach as "Bondee Beach" - it's pronounced "Bon-Die".

[@DP-fq7iy]

Well, at least he’s honest. At the very least.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

Um, the whole scam relied on a lie.

[@KMD10_]

Maybe he weighed his odds and though hed wait his short sentence and retrieve the cash

[@apache313]

I may have missed this very critical part, but how was he going to deactivate the "bomb" when he received the cash?

[@sprintershepherd4359]

probably would have told them how . well one would hope that would be the deal .

[@silvernoob1603]

bondee beach LOL....

[@tablecat6687]

This is much better, he took cash and no one was injured.

[@DoubleMonoLR]

Apart from the mental stress & damage done.

[@puppetguy8726]

4:22 Wow, taking an entire plane hostage without putting anyone in danger, damn that's so clever. Now I hope dude doesn't get caught, pulling such a stunt he really deserves to get away with it 😀

[@TariqHlayel]

He literally said he got caught

[@puppetguy8726]

@@TariqHlayel I obviously wrote the comment before I had watched the entire thing

[@TariqHlayel]

Puppet Guy I know, but just wanted to make sure :)

[@FunAviTM]

Why couldn’t they cancel the flight like, bro.... pretend to say flight’s delayed and everybody gotta go back into the terminal -_-

[@AyoSosanya]

The plane was already in the air lol

[@friendlyatheist387]

Quick question: so England sent its criminals to Australia What happened with Mr. Brown? Sent back to Australia?

[@thestorydude787]

I was wondering if this incident inspired Hollywood to release the film: Speed with Keanu Reeves. What do you think? Deja Vu?

[@BigSteak]

very good!!

[@abhishekkande4320]

This movie was made in hindi as 'A Wednesday'

[@morganfreeman4204]

Top 10 biggest SIKE moments in history

[@grsly854]

issue being, the cabin would never get above about 8000ft, or 2000m(ish). therefore never activating the bomb to descend through the trigger

[@maxhugen]

These aircraft operate at 30-33,000 ft.

[@grsly854]

maxhugen I understand that. But unless the bomb was strapped to the outside of the plane it would never experience a pressure less than 8000ft due to cabin pressurisation

[@maxhugen]

@@grsly854 Ah, you're right, you did say the cabin, missed that. Cheers!