In 1971, a man hijacked a commercial plane flying from Portland, Oregon, ordered bourbon and soda from his seat in 18E, showed the air hostesses his bomb, demanded $200 000 in ransom money, parachuted out of said plane in a black suit, and was never seen again.
An 18-year-old momentarily hijacked a plane flying to a tiny town in Alaska, which had five other passengers on board.
During a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Nashville last Friday, a passenger attempted to break into the cockpit. It didn’t end well for him.
Every so often, you hear a story that sounds like it could only be thought up by a Hollywood scriptwriter. Martin McNally’s story is one of those.
By now you will have seen the photo that British man Ben Innes snapped with hijacker Seif al-Din Mustafa. Just how did it all go down though?
If you suffer from a fear of flying look away now – a plane in Cyprus has just landed with a rather unwanted passenger on board.