The Connellan air disaster was a suicide attack at Alice Springs Airport, Northern Territory, Australia, on 5 January 1977.

He found work as a pilot at Ord Air Charter in the northern Western Australian town of Wyndham, but was soon terminated there as well.

In about October 1976, he told a fellow member and local North West Star journalist, "If I don't get a job by Christmas then you will get to know, and through you most of the world will know".

[citation needed] Early on the morning of 3 January 1977, Forman trashed his one-bedroom flat in Mount Isa in a fit of rage, piled up the remnants in a corner of his lounge room and created what was later described as an altar.

[1] As he reached Alice Springs Airport, Forman broadcast a final message by radio: "It is better to die with honour than live without it – Echo – November – Alpha.

"[1] Forman then set full power on both engines and aimed at the Connellan complex before plunging the aircraft into the centre of the building.