It culminated with two escaped juvenile prisoners holding three hostages at gunpoint in the control tower at Dunedin Airport. Using archival material and fresh interviews, MICHAEL WRIGHT explores the remarkable story of the Dunedin Airport hostage siege of 1979. AARON WOOD In 1979, two armed teenagers took hostages in the control tower at Dunedin Airport. On December 18 that year, four youths were working in the garden of the borstal farm: Sharp, Taituha, 18-year-old Rex Tukuafu and 19-year-old Ken Georgeson. Kavinda Herath/Stuff Murray Sharp recalls the 1979 Dunedin Airport hostage siege.

Source: Stuff January 24, 2020 16:00 UTC