Word: copilots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prolonged episodes in the chronicles of skyjacking. Three men armed with pistols and a hand grenade boarded Flight 49 in Birmingham and took the 30 passengers and four crew members on an odyssey of terror that ended 29 hours later in Havana. Everybody lost something on the flight: the copilot was wounded, the passengers were badly shaken, Southern Airways may be financially crippled by the ransom it paid, the FBI has been damned for a trigger-happy performance and the hijackers are said to be condemned to spend the rest of their lives...
Outraged. That only served to panic the hijackers, who shot and wounded Copilot Billy H. Johnson. Taxiing on nothing but rims wrapped in tattered rubber, the veteran pilot, Captain William R. Haas, 39, miraculously got the plane off the ground. He was again ordered to Cuba, where he set down on a foam-covered runway at José Martí. Cuban authorities immediately confiscated the money and led the hijackers away. The passengers and crew were flown back to Miami. Their 29 hours of terror were ended...
...regulations, pilots must reduce power settings at a moment in flight that is potentially hazardous because the aircraft is in a nose-up attitude and still climbing. A change in droop setting at this time can cause a stall. Normally, the adjustment of the droop is made by the copilot, and Captain Key had two relatively inexperienced copilots aboard. "It could have been that whoever was adjusting the flaps pulled the wrong lever," said a senior BEA pilot...
...musician (Roosevelt Grier); a United States Senator (Wal ter Pidgeon) and his son (Nicholas Hammond); a teeny-bopper (Susan Dey); a young wife on the verge of giving birth (Mariette Hartley); the head stewardess (Yvette Mimieux), once in love with the captain (Charlton Heston), now carrying on with the copilot (Mike Henry); and a certain Sergeant Jerome K. Weber (James Brolin), a bug-eyed benny popper who swills brandy, talks crazy and keeps clutching at a large black satchel stashed under his seat. One among these is a skyjacker. Guess...
...national guerrilla gangs. In the random nature of terror, the week's worst violence came from an unexpected quarter; ten Czech skyjackers held up a Slov-Air twin-engine L-410 flying from Marienbad to Prague, killed the pilot when he refused to change course, and forced the copilot to fly them to West Germany, where they were promptly arrested...