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How airline hijackings ended in the good old days
Posted by David Hardy · 9 September 2011 09:03 AM
Crime, Guns, and Videotape has the story. And the aftermath.
As I remember, back in the 60s one airline (Frontier?) didn't care if you carried, and the others cared but really couldn't do much since airports didn't have metal detectors.
Comments
Great story, thanks for sharing that.
Posted by: Jim K at September 9, 2011 01:03 PM
That wasn't the only case of a hijacker being shot on an airplane. The Captain of an airliner shot a would-be highjacker on the ground in Cleveland.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/2001_3341305/hero-in-the-cockpit-pistol-served-pilot-well-in-54.html
Posted by: Kenn at September 14, 2011 11:56 AM