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60 Minutes: Feb 13

60 Minutes profiles a Qantas A380 pilot, the parents of a child who died during the Queensland floods, and a story on Julian Assange.

60 Minutes returns to air this weekend with stories on the pilot who safely landed a Qantas A380 after an engine explosion, the parents of a child who died during the Queensland floods, and a CBS story on Wikileaks’ Julian Assange.

Ironically Dateline‘s Mark Davis has an interview with Assange at 8:30pm on SBS.

Captain Fantastic
Qantas has long been revered as the safest airline in the world. But its reputation has taken a beating of late. Literally. In November last year, an engine on one of its massive A380s exploded in mid-air. A lot of things went wrong that day. In fact, the flight crew had to deal with more than 60 separate system failures. But as you’ll see on Sunday night, a lot of things also went right, thanks largely to the man at the controls. Only his cool head and keen instincts got that plane down safely. And when you hear the full story, you’ll be amazed at how he did it.
Reporter: Karl Stefanovic
Producer: Stephen Taylor

Torn Apart
Occasionally in this job, you hear a story that is so gut-wrenchingly tragic that you wonder where people find the strength to get out of bed each day. That’s how Michael Usher felt when he met Stacey Keep and her husband, Matthew. They lost their 23-month-old daughter, Jessica, during the Queensland floods. The raging water literally ripped the little girl out of Stacey’s arms. There’s nothing you can say or do to make things better. So we just listened. And we cried bucket-loads. And we tried to focus on the little miracles of that dreadful day.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producer: Jo Townsend

Enemy of the State
If the life story of Julian Assange was ever made into a movie, it would play like a cross between “Conspiracy Theory” and “Revenge of the Nerds”. Assange started out as a geeky teenage computer hacker in Melbourne. Twenty years later, he’s gleefully embarrassing corporations and countries, including Australia, through his website – WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks posts highly confidential information online for anyone to read. You can see why the establishment hates him. But he’s had his wings clipped of late. Right now he’s holed up in England waiting for the courts there to decide whether to extradite him to Sweden on rape charges. And if the Swedes luck out, the US government might take a crack at him on espionage charges. Steve Kroft of American 60 Minutes spoke to the man who can’t and won’t keep a secret.

Reporter: Steve Croft
Producer: CBS 60 Minutes

It airs 7:30pm Sunday on Nine.

8 Responses

  1. @Jen13 – How the did they exploit the couple who lots their child? The willingly did the interview and I thought it was a fantastic story and I don’t normally watch 60 Minutes.

    I tuned in for the A380 story but what them all. What I want to know is with the Julian Assange story, (taken from the US 60 Min) why wasn’t it in 16:9 when the US version was? Check it out on YouTube. I remember a couple of years ago the last time I was the show a story from the US was also 4:3, why can’t they get the HD 16:9 footage?

  2. I recorded 60 minutes specifically so I could see the Julian Assange interview.
    FFing through the recorded program to find it, I saw what I could tell to be the story of the poor Qld couple who lost their kid in the floods. (I hadn’t seen any info beforehand on the other stories, it was just obvious).
    What shocking exploitation!
    This is typical channel 9, and the reason I don’t normally watch it.
    Disgraceful.

  3. Julian Assange is a hero and we need more like him.In a democracy the people elect Government. The government carries out the wishes of its people.If the Government has secrets,what they are actually telling us is lies.They are elected to be truthful.WMDs in Iraq is just one of numerous stories one can point to.There is no need for any secrets.Dishonesty and mistrust is the reason the world is like it is.

  4. Inside front page of today’s Sunday Telegraph (NSW), there is an ad for 60 Minutes which states “…plus Wikileaks Julian Assange – Exclusive Interview”. Can’t see how it is exclusive if Dateline are also speaking to him!!!

  5. uh hello to 60 minutes dateline are doing a story aswell on assange

    although i can imagine that 60minutes will just cut and paste and havent interviewed him at all

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