Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Listed on the passenger roster as T. Johnson and armed with a hand grenade, pistol and prewritten instructions for the pilot, McCoy had no trouble hijacking the United Airlines, Denver-Los Angeles 727 to San Francisco. United met his demands: $500,000 in small bills, six hours worth of fuel...
> High over California, an unemployed Stanford graduate named Stanley Harlan Speck, 31, demanded $500,000 and four parachutes in a plan to commandeer a Pacific Southwest Airlines 727 to Miami. But he imprudently left the plane at San Diego to pick up navigation charts for the crew, and was overpowered...
> In Portland, Ore., an accountant for the Washington state highway department, Major Burton Davenport, 56, threatened to blow up a Continental Airlines 707 bound for Hawaii unless paid $500,000 from the U.S. Treasury. After an hour, he was talked out of it.
> When Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz, a 37-year-old Mexican with a history of psychiatric problems, hijacked a Frontier Airlines 737 from Albuquerque to Los Angeles, his motive was to gain not money but a public forum for alleged injustice to U.S. minorities. He got it in the form of radio...
To allay public jitters, the Federal Aviation Administration announced that it was investigating the airlines involved for failure to screen passengers before departure. An offense against that rule, which was adopted by the FAA last February, could bring fines of $1,000 each. The FAA charged that neither United nor...