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Connellan air disaster | |
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Location | Alice Springs Airport Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia |
Coordinates | 23°48′13″S 133°54′12″E / 23.80361°S 133.90333°E |
Date | 5 January 1977 approx. 10.30am local (UTC+9:30) |
Target | Connellan Airways building |
Attack type | Suicide attack, deliberate crash |
Weapons | Beechcraft Baron Fixed-wing aircraft |
Deaths | 5 (including perpetrator) |
Injured | 4 |
Perpetrator | Colin Richard Forman |
The Connellan air disaster was a suicide attack at Alice Springs Airport, Northern Territory, Australia, on 5 January 1977.
The attack was carried out by a disgruntled former employee of Connellan Airways (also known as Connair), who flew a Beechcraft Baron into the Connair complex at the airport. The attack killed the pilot and four other people and injured four more, two of them seriously.[1][2]
The disaster is one of only two aircraft suicide attacks in Australia's history, the other being in 1982 at Bankstown Airport.[3][4]