In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of Sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week. Some hijackers wished to escape to…
A shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl, Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague protest against the war. Through a combination of savvy and dumb luck, the couple managed to flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars …
Documents the 1972 story behind the longest-distance hijacking in U.S. history, tracing the events of the hijacking against a backdrop of civil unrest and the skyjacking wave of the early 1970s.
A shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl, Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague protest against the war. Through a combination of savvy and dumb luck, the couple managed to flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars …
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of Sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week. Some hijackers wished to escape to…
Account of the hijacking of Indian Airlines aircraft from Delhi to Kathmandu and back, Dec. 1999.
"" ... Her memoir is an inspirational chronicle of personal tragedy surmounted by raw courage""--Publishers Weekly Jackie Nink Pflug's gripping true story of courage and inspiration, told from a survivor's perspective, with a new preface written by the author. Ms. Pflug, who was…
The elite SEAL Team 16 Troubleshooters squad is called upon once again to take down a group of terrorists who have hijacked a commercial airplane in this densely plotted romantic thriller. Amid the exhaustive drills and daily dramas of the mission, the author weaves three romant…
Code Red, Code Red - this plane has been hijacked! Page-turning action from SAS hero, Chris Ryan, as Ben Tracy finds himself caught up in a plane crash and a kidnap - in the heart of a tornado ... Ben Tracey is on holiday in the Cayman Islands when a hurricane warning means he a…
YA. Suspense fiction. Code Red, Code Red - this plane has been hijacked! Page-turning action from SAS hero, Chris Ryan, as Ben Tracy finds himself caught up in a plane crash and a kidnap - in the heart of a tornado.
