Would You Fly With No Pilot? Runway Scares, Peter Brock, And Spotting A Fake Birkin

Bonafide with Luke Bona · Sep 17, 2026 · 2h 20m

What's real, what's fake, and who gets to decide? The ATSB has opened six investigations into runway and taxiing incidents at Sydney Airport since late July. Aviation researcher Dr Graham Wild from UNSW Canberra tells Luke whether it's still safe to fly, why he thinks air traffic control leans on old technology, and whether you'd ever board a plane with no one in the cockpit. Along the way: why planes don't fly higher, what's actually in jet fuel, and why you won't get sucked out of an airlock if you stand at the back.

Then Drive's James Ward remembers Peter Brock 20 years on, from the Energy…