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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":"2026-09-30T21:52:27Z","headline":"‘I grabbed the controls’: Hero passenger on how he helped save 174 aboard flight FZ1073","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"theage","url":"https://www.theage.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

1fcf2418f4514f3c2fac9bdb7ce1d3113c5c686c12d8df49396ff6734fe9773a

OpenTimestamps

Submitted to the OpenTimestamps calendars 2026-09-30 21:57 UTC; waiting for a Bitcoin block (usually a few hours).

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-30 21:59 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-1fcf2418f451.json prints 1fcf2418f4514f3c2fac9bdb7ce1d3113c5c686c12d8df49396ff6734fe9773a. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-1fcf2418f451.json and headline-1fcf2418f451.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-1fcf2418f451.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, 5 min after it was first seen.