Word: hijacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea for its listeners. News Director Phil Hayes promises that WLS reporting of air piracy will stress the severity of penalties involved, rewards offered by airlines and convictions obtained in other cases: "We will give as much coverage to the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of a hijacker as we give to the actual hijack...
McCoy might have got away with it had he not in effect used the hijack to hitchhike home. Robert Van leperen, a Utah highway patrolman and close friend, recalled that McCoy, an enthusiastic skydiver, had talked about hijacking a plane in Cooper style. He may have put FBI agents on the skyjacker's tail; the FBI is not telling how it cracked the case. McCoy's picture was identified by a United passenger, and his military record yielded handwriting that the FBI said matched the ransom instructions. Less than 48 hours after he hijacked the plane, McCoy...
...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 PSA had prescreened passengers on the flights that were hijacked, and Frontier admitted that its metal-detection devices at Albuquerque were not working on the day Chavez-Ortiz pulled his protest hijack. In addition to using metal detectors, airlines are supposed to scrutinize passenger behavior at ticket counters to spot potential hijackers. But in United's case at least...
...tale be true? The Soviets know the identites of the nine bodies found at the Trident crash site, but they will say only that the victims were in uniform, that one was a woman and that there were signs of an armed struggle in the aircraft, suggesting a hijack attempt. Experts tend to believe the fantastic story of Lin's flight, though they concede that the account of the assassination attempts might have been fabricated to make it less embarrassing for Mao to purge the man whom he had personally designated his "closest comrade in arms and successor." After...
...worldwide outcry greeted the harsh sentences meted out last winter to eleven Soviet citizens-nine of them Jews trying to get to Israel-convicted of conspiring to hijack an aircraft and fly it to Sweden. As a result, Moscow commuted the two death sentences handed down at the trial to 15-year terms in labor camps. A special section of the Ministry for Internal Affairs was set up to speed emigration to Israel, and in twelve busy weeks 2,300 Russian Jews were permitted to leave the country-more than in any year since Israel was founded...