Episode 2 - A ditch in darkness

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.