<page_title> List of helicopter prison escapes </page_title> <section_title> Actual attempts </section_title> <table> <cell> Pentridge (HM Prison) <col_header> Prison name </col_header> </cell> <cell> Arrests were made for the 1983 attempted helicopter escape from Melbourne’s Pentridge Prison in Australia. The three, all held on drug-importation charges, had hired a former SAS soldier, then living in the Philippines, to lift the prisoners from the jail’s tennis court to a nearby van fitted with panels to hide them for the 600 kilometre road trip to Sydney, where a yacht was to take them to Manila. <col_header> Details </col_header> </cell> </table>
An attempt had made to escape Melbourne's high-security Pentridge Prison by helicopter using former SAS personnel.