Airlines were much less regulated ... which conducted the first TAA flight and flew well into the 1960s. He says the Hawdon, now owned by Qantas, is well preserved at Melbourne Airport and ...

1960. Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) Flight 408, a Lockheed Electra named the John Gilbert was schedule for a 7.30pm departure from Sydney to Brisbane. Among the 43 passengers on the airline's ...

By the time the plane touched down in Brisbane that night, July 19, 1960, Australia — and the world — had suffered one of its earliest midair hijackings. A Cathay Pacific flight that crashed ...