Professor Ian Plimer

I was publishing a lot of work.

I was working in the field, I was working underground.

And then I went to the head office of the company in Melbourne.

And I left them on a day which I can never forget.

We were passengers in their corporate jet.

It ran out of fuel.

It crashed.

And not many people live from crashing in a forest.

And I'd had an offer from the university because I had a lot of experience in the mining industry.

a lot of publications out there.

And I thought, I'd better take that off.

I have three young kids.

I don't particularly want to be travelling the world, flying in private planes and crashing in forests.

And that really changed my life.

And that's when I started to combine what I knew from underground safety with...

general safety and working in a university, there's really very little understanding of safety, very little understanding of responsibility and consequences for your action.

And I very quickly became a chair at the University of Newcastle.

That's Newcastle in Australia, not in the UK.

And then after Newcastle, I was the Lehrstuhl von Lagerstedt & Kunde, the Professor of Mineral Deposits at Munich.

Well, we have the German population.