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Proof: ‘I grabbed the controls’: Hero passenger on how he helped save 174 aboard flight FZ1073

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-01T00:20:51Z","headline":"‘I grabbed the controls’: Hero passenger on how he helped save 174 aboard flight FZ1073","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"smh","url":"https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/i-grabbed-the-terrorist-how-hero-passengers-helped-save-flight-fz1073-20261001-p611wh.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

0f19ac0b5c971b89deffcaab4de3201a1af25f629972656df621500c3ff740df

OpenTimestamps

Submitted to the OpenTimestamps calendars 2026-10-01 00:22 UTC; waiting for a Bitcoin block (usually a few hours).

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-01 00:24 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:no-request.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-0f19ac0b5c97.json prints 0f19ac0b5c971b89deffcaab4de3201a1af25f629972656df621500c3ff740df. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-0f19ac0b5c97.json and headline-0f19ac0b5c97.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-0f19ac0b5c97.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.