Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the week was out, one TWA plane, sitting empty in AP Las Vegas, was blasted apart. Another in New York was narrowly saved when a bomb in the cockpit was defused just minutes before detonation. Dynamite was found on a United Air Lines flight into Seattle. And, in a fourth incident not disclosed by the Government, TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin learned that two plastique explosive devices were concealed in spray cans aboard a United 727. The cans were discovered when a federal agent searching a suspected suitcase noticed a can of Right Guard and of Noxzema seemed too heavy...
...those crashes have been blamed for his later reclusiveness. He first grew a mustache while recovering from the XF-11 crash because the burns he had suffered made shaving painful. For all his feats. Hughes is regarded as a second-rate flyer by some pilots who have shared a cockpit with...
Within minutes, a 740 m.p.h. Czechoslovak air force MIG 17 was on his tail. When the pilot fired a poorly aimed cannon burst, Bezak turned and put the Zlin into a steep 4,000-ft. dive. As G forces slapped his sons against the cockpit canopy, his wife Marie, 27, shouted, "It's all up! We'd better go back." Instead, Bezak watched as the MIG frantically circled to make another firing run, and banked the plane as if he were obeying the air force pilot's unmistakable signal to return. Suddenly, Bezak turned again and slipped...
Four-State Manhunt. FBI officials estimate that he dropped into an open area in the wilderness some 35 miles north of Portland. The location was determined by the time of his jump, which probably occurred when a red light went on in the cockpit, indicating a drop in cabin pressure. The hijacker must have opened the rear door at that point...
...sweating profusely and acting nervous. She was about to report him to the pilot as a possible hijacker when the young man, Rich ard Allen Obergfell, 26, of New York City, grabbed her by the neck and, with an automatic pistol at her back, forced her toward the cockpit. He told the captain, Albert Hawes: "Take this plane to Milan. Italy...