Mason

Mason
Employer	Atlantic Airlines
Occupation	Steward Hijacker
Family and Known Associates	Madeline (model / hijacker) Collins (co-conspirator) Ross (gang member)
Appearances	Alias Mr. Hackenbacker
Voiced by	Jeremy Wilkin

"When I want your opinion I'll ask for it"

Mason serves as a steward on board the Skythrust airliner when it makes its first flight. He also possesses a few not-so-admirable talents...

He appears in Alias Mr. Hackenbacker.

Biography

Sky Anxiety: High-Fashion - and, Hijacked!

Skythrust takes off, bound for London, and Francois Lemaire's fashion show begins. Mason and Madeline (one of the show's models) subsequently hijack the airliner, giving pilot Captain Ashton instructions to fly to the Sahara Desert, where the rest of their gang awaits. Elsewhere on board, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward (another of the models) covertly alerts International Rescue...

Mason aboard Skythrust

Mason gives Aston new directions

Guests at gunpoint!

Return to London Airport

After Madeline warns Thunderbird 1 to back off, Thunderbird 2 - still in pursuit - knocks out Skythrust's undercarriage with one of its missiles. Captain Aston tells Mason that they now have no alternative but to head for London International Airport, which at least has the facilities to handle a crash-landing. Reluctantly, Mason agrees...

The Game is Up...

Skythrust eventually crash-lands at London Airport, where the secret 'Hackenbacker Device' comes into play: a rear-mounted electable fuel pod flies free, and is detonated high in the sky. Penelope hold the hijackers at gunpoint, until the police arrive to take them away.

The game is up!

Trivia

• Mason's puppet made a number of appearances in Thunderbirds: originally appearing as Victor Gomez in Move - And You're Dead; plus the Foreign Airforce Lieutenant in The Cham-Cham, and Gutierrez in Path Of Destruction.
  • In Edge Of Impact, it portrayed the Foreign Fighter Jet Pilot; plus two cameos in The Impostors - at the scene of the fake rescue and, later, aboard Fireflash. It pops up yet again, in Lord Parker's 'Oliday, attending the fancy dress party dressed in a poncho. In The Duchess Assignment, it was seen in the Departure Lounge - London Airport.
  • In Thunderbird 6, it is seen taking part in Operation "Ambush" at Black Phantom's base.

Victor Gomez

Foreign airforce lieutenant

Gutierrez

Foreign fighter jet pilot

At the rescue site
(The Impostors)

Aboard Fireflash
(The Impostors)

In Lord Parker's 'Oliday

In The Duchess Assignment

In Thunderbird 6