Black Hawk down draught - veteran ferry cops a blast

By Ellie Harvey
Updated November 9 2012 - 4:21pm, first published December 1 2010 - 2:15pm
Damaged in the line of duty ... the 88-year-old Baragoola in front of the army’s actual target, the Cape Don.
Damaged in the line of duty ... the 88-year-old Baragoola in front of the army’s actual target, the Cape Don.

GLEN LEVETT was asleep on the historic former Sydney ferry, MV Baragoola, when the roar of engines and rotor blades cut through the wind and rain. Five Black Hawk helicopters had swooped on the harbour in the early hours of the morning, one hovering metres above the steamer.

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