{"id":162992,"date":"2024-12-31T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/50-years-ago-qantas-boeing-747-evacuate-darwin-residents-after-cyclone-tracy\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T09:00:14","slug":"50-years-ago-qantas-boeing-747s-help-evacuate-darwin-residents-after-cyclone-tracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=162992","title":{"rendered":"50 Years Ago: Qantas&#8217; Boeing 747s Help  Evacuate Darwin Residents After Cyclone Tracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas Day marked the 50th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy, a destructive cyclone that battered the Tiwi Islands and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2023408\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/direct-to-darwin-international-carriers-serving-the-northern-territory\/\" >Darwin<\/a><\/span> in the Northern Territory of Australia. With many scrambling for shelter, 66 people lost their lives.             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254825\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/qantas\/\"  >Qantas<\/a><\/span>, Australia&#8217;s flag carrier, played an instrumental part in evacuating thousands of affected residents following the aftermath of the cyclone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, Qantas evacuated 4,925 residents from Darwin in a mix of the Boeing 707 and 747 aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,1312,7446,515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-darwinairport","category-evacuation-flights","category-qantas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162993,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162992\/revisions\/162993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}