Ansett Australia Flight 232
AIRCRAFT HIJACKING
Ansett flight 232; Ansett Airlines Flight 232
Ansett Australia Flight 232, on Wednesday, 15 November 1972, was a trip from Adelaide, South Australia aboard a Fokker Friendship bound for Alice Springs, Northern Territory. It was Australia's second aircraft hijacking (after the first in 1960), and resulted in the perpetrator's death by suicide.