00:00When you think about the amount of money, was it $300 million or something?
00:03What the hell is $300 million?
00:05To have a national search and rescue service, if they seriously wanted that organisation
00:09to continue under that structure, they would have bailed it out and got rid of John, put
00:15in a new CEO to manage it properly.
00:18And I mean properly in terms of commercially, you know, probably would have lost, you know,
00:23I think John did get carried away towards the end.
00:26I mean, we had search and rescue dogs, we used to parachute with German shepherds, not
00:30me, parachute with German shepherds into search and rescue sites.
00:35I mean, that's great.
00:37And then all these other things that started happening, setting up other bases that weren't
00:40really critical and buying flying schools and all this sort of thing, and I just think that
00:44was non-essential.
00:45If it stuck to his, you know, the meat and veggies, the guts of the organisation, the bit that apparently
00:52made money, which was the search and rescue contracts, then I think he'd probably still
00:56be here today.
00:57I flew to Germany.
00:59We traced his family to a place called Lanschut, which was outside of Munich.
01:09It's a beautiful, beautiful town as you'd expect in the southern part of Germany.
01:14I met a woman who was his mother, I had a number of photographs with me.
01:20And when I first met her, she looked at the photographs, but also told me that she knew
01:26it was her son, because she'd already seen photographs in the media.
01:30And the photographs were a confirmation, but she didn't need it.
01:34She knew who he was and told me a little bit about his life.
01:42And at that time, she produced a photograph of a beautiful Alsatian dog and gave it to
01:51me to give to him, because she believed at that time that when she knew him as a young
02:00man, as a boy and a young man, that that was truly the thing, one of the things or maybe
02:05the only thing that he'd ever really loved.
02:07And she gave me that photograph and I brought it back and I gave it to him.
02:11What was his reaction?
02:13His reaction was strange in that he didn't want to look at the photo.
02:19He didn't, his reaction was also strange in that when I told him I'd seen his mother,
02:28there was no answer, told him that she gave me this photograph to give to him, there was
02:34no answer and he never acknowledged it.
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