In 2008 , while ferrying a Second World War Catalina flying boat from Portugal to Australia , Hazelton and his crew got caught up in the Mumbai terrorist attack and had to escape under gun fire , having to take off from the city 's airport without the proper paperwork . In 2011 Hazelton , with a friend , re-enacted the 1928 trans-Pacific crossing of Charles Kingsford Smith in a single engine Beechcraft Bonanza 36 , flying from Oakland , California , to Brisbane , Queensland
Mumbai terrorist attack
2008 Mumbai attacks
Jim Hazelton