Show Notes
On November the 3rd 1996 Cairns Air Control received a mayday call from a twin engine Piper Aztec aircraft returning from Horn Island. It disappeared off their radar and ditched 4km from the coast off Wangetti Beach. Colin Brooks shares this incredible story of survival and talks in great detail of the moment everything started to go wrong with light plane. Without Colin's heroics that night things would have taken a different turn.
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On July 30 1997 a landslide swept through the centre of town taking out two ski resorts. With 19 people missing under the rubble in the isolated ski village, emergency services certainly had their work cut out for them. Braving the continually sliding rubble, the darkness and the cold, this story will be told by Chris Wilkinson, a paramedic who was there with hundreds of other emergency service workers looking for survivors.