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JBT air scare

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Sep 1, 2010 Updated Sep 2, 2010

John Butler and his band were among passengers caught in a crash-landing scare on a Darwin-to-Adelaide flight overnight.

Passengers on board Qantas flight QF757 from Darwin were told to prepare for an emergency landing, but the pilot was able to set the aircraft down without incident.

Professor Damien Kingsbury of Deakin University was on the plane and says it was a terrifying experience, telling 774 ABC Radio: "We had the John Butler band on board, we had the Victorian cricket team on board so it could have been a very messy outcome."

 

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The John Butler Trio are an eclecticroots and jam band from Australia led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler. They formed in Fremantle in 1998 with Jason McGann on drums and Gavin Shoesmith on bass guitar. By 2009, the trio was Butler with Nicky Bomba on drums and percussion, and Byron Luiters on bass guitar. The band's second studio album, Three (2001) reached the top 30 in the Australian...

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