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Women's Underclothes. Hubbard speaks with some authority. He is the only U.S. psychiatrist who has studied the skyjacking phenomenon. Supported by a $200,000 grant from a private Dallas foundation, Hubbard in the past 3½ years has taped hundreds of hours of interviews with 50 imprisoned skyjackers, worked with airline crews to develop techniques for handling piracy, and outlined his ideas in a 1971 book called The Skyjacker: His Flights of Fantasy (Macmillan; $5.95). Hubbard's go-easy approach is anathema to get-tough FBI officials and many pilots. But there is some evidence that...
...principal characters in the Houston skyjacking and in an unsuccessful attempt two days later at New York City's Kennedy Airport seem to give Hubbard's theories even more credence. Charles Tuller, who led the band that took over the Eastern jet, could not sustain his marriage, hated his exwife, and was said to be awkward and uncomfortable around women. The man who was subdued before he could hijack a National Airlines jet in New York was discovered to be wearing women's underclothes. What is known about both men seems to confirm Hubbard's belief...
...never dated. I didn't know how to ask," many skyjackers have confessed to Hubbard. When a skyjacker gets married, it is usually to a woman who "seduced him first and proposed later." Adds Hubbard about the skyjackers he knows: "Almost without exception, the men were reviled by their wives, strove to placate them and were often cuckolded." One betrayed skyjacker's wife told her husband that he had "never pleased her sexually, had a tiny penis, and not the least idea in the world about what to do with...
Shattered by that kind of accusation, a husband may try to repair his ego by a daring act of air piracy-at the same time symbolically getting back at other members of his family. Observes Hubbard: "It is not difficult to discern the delight they experienced when they approached little sister-mother stewardess, gun in hand, and said, 'Honey, we're going all the way -to Cuba,' and the sense of power they derived from making daddy (flying the plane) stay put, making him permit the abuse of sister-mother, and forcing him to perform the bidding...
Numerous skyjackers have confessed suicidal fantasies to Hubbard. Sometimes this intent is displayed when a skyjacker purposely delays opening his chute after jumping from a plane. Sometimes it comes out in an expressed indifference to death. Said one young man: "I bought me a plane ticket and a pistol. I thought, I'll either die or I'll do it. Either way was O.K. with me." Thus for many skyjackers, Hubbard says, death may be "not the ultimate punishment but the ultimate reward...