Luigi Mangione’s rise from accused killer to unlikely hero is explored on this week’s 60 Minutes, examining why some Americans have rallied behind the man accused of killing a health insurance executive.
The episode also takes viewers inside the terrifying moments after an aircraft engine malfunction sent debris through a passenger window, leaving a man partially sucked from the plane at 16,000 feet.
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SHOOTING PAIN
Not just young, good looking, smart and seemingly well-off, Luigi Mangione is also a killer. He’s a ruthless assassin who, in the heart of New York, stalked and then shot health insurance executive Brian Thompson three times.
It sounds like a clear-cut crime, but quite remarkably, in America many people believe Mangione is a hero and Brian Thompson is the real villain.
Mangione’s supporters argue the health insurance system in the United States is so broken, ordinary Americans are suffering immense hardship.
They’re not only being ripped-off financially, they’re not receiving appropriate health care.
As Adam Hegarty reports, that may be the case, but it doesn’t mean shooting someone is the way to fix the problem.
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Reported by Adam Hegarty and produced by Laura Sparkes and Nichola Younger.
THE WINDOW SEAT
Most passengers on planes have a preference for where they sit. They like either a window or an aisle seat. Six weeks ago, on a scheduled commercial flight between Greece and Germany, Ljubiša Karović got the window seat. He now wishes he hadn’t, because it almost killed him.
The 61-year-old grandfather was on a Ryanair Boeing 737, and as it climbed through 16,000 feet, the right engine malfunctioned and shot debris into the window nearest him. It exploded, leaving a hole in the fuselage which sucked his head, upper torso and right arm out of the cabin.
For around two minutes, which probably felt more like hours, brave fellow travellers fought to get Ljubiša back inside the aircraft. But as he and his wife Svetlana tell Dimity Clancey, his life-saving rescue was only the first part of the ordeal.
As the pilots prepared for an emergency landing, the unwanted in-flight entertainment on this plane became a horror show many of the passengers were convinced was going to end in catastrophe.
Reported by Dimity Clancey and produced by Sammi Taylor and Nichola Younger.
This episode of 60 Minutes airs tonight, Sunday 23rd August, at 8:35pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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