Word: mohawk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hughes Airwest, Allegheny, Frontier, Mohawk, North Central, Ozark, Piedmont, Southern and Texas International...
After interviewing more than 40 skyjackers, Dallas Psychiatrist David G. Hubbard produced a prototypical profile of an insecure, effeminate loner who has probably never seduced a woman. Heinrich VonGeorge, 45, the man who hijacked a Mohawk Airlines propjet last week, scarcely fits that pattern. His motive was not an escape compulsion or an aberrant drive for momentary fame. It was a simple, brutal act of financial desperation...
Finally, unemployed and debt-ridden, he told his wife that he was going to Albany to look for a job. He hijacked the Mohawk airliner with a track-meet starter's pistol, demanded and got $200,000 in ransom money, then forced the plane to land in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. There VonGeorge suffered his final setback: he was shotgunned to death at point-blank range by an FBI agent...
This year, in a move designed to reduce athletic department costs, the football, soccer, and cross country teams will be flying to Cornell on a single chartered Mohawk airlines...
...airlines resorted to a wide-ranging exploration of merger possibilities-the classic, though not always successful industry device for rescuing the flounderers. Some carriers have already reached merger agreements. Currently pending before the Civil Aeronautics Board are three proposed consolidations that could strongly affect the industry's structure: Mohawk with Allegheny, Northeast with Delta and, by far the largest and most important, American with Western. The American-Western merger would join the second-and eighth-biggest domestic carriers...