Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ansett Airlines Flight 232 was an attempted hijacking of a Fokker Friendship bound for Alice Springs from Adelaide on Wednesday, 15 November 1972. It was the first aircraft hijacking in Australia. The would-be hijacker died in the incident. About 30 minutes before Flight 232 was due to land a male passenger produced a gun and said to the flight attendant: "This is a hijack". The man, subsequently identified as a Czech migrant named Miloslav Hrabinec, had boarded the flight in Adelaide with a concealed sawn-off .22 ArmaLite rifle and a sheath knife strapped to his leg.