Moving back towards the original thread.
I suspect it was mid 80s, but there was quite a nice Australian owned Cessna twin siezed in DPS with large amount of drugs hidden under the trim.The pilot was based at Bankstown and had done a number of runs with young pilots with new licenses to help fly on the "holiday" trip to Bankok.I later flew with one of them who insisted that he knew and saw nothing on his holiday
I seem to remember that the pilot ended up escaping Bali and somehow making it home but was later caught doing the run again but it was along time ago and I may be wrong about the pilot history. I do know that the aircraft sat at DPS for many years and eventually ended up as an apprentice trainer for the local AME school.
At that time we regularly saw unlit aircraft in the moonlight heading south over the Timor Sea and into Central Australia from out 35,000 lookout. Its a big country and I'm sure lots happens out there even now.
Wunwing