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On the evening of Wednesday, August 2, 1972, at a hurried 10-minute news conference after the DC-8's completion of the 11,500 miles (18,500 km) trip in Atlanta, the captain said he realized the aircraft was being hijacked when he left the cockpit to go to the lavatory and noticed a man aiming a gun at a stewardess.
George Edward Wright (born March 29, 1943) is a Portuguese citizen of American origin, [1] known for taking part in the hijacking of Delta Air Lines Flight 841.Originally arrested and convicted for murder in 1962 and sentenced to up to 30 years in prison, George Wright escaped from prison in 1970 and hijacked a Delta Air Lines flight in 1972 with a number of accomplices.
Flight 841 may refer to: Los Angeles Airways Flight 841, helicopter crashed on May 22, 1968; Pan Am Flight 841, Hijacked on 2 July 1972; Delta Air Lines Flight 841, a Detroit-Miami flight hijacked to Algeria on 31 July 1972; TWA Flight 841 (1974), Terrorist suicide bomb in flight on September 8, 1974; TWA Flight 841 (1979), loss of control on ...
TWA Flight 841 was a scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, en route to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On the evening of April 4, 1979 while flying over Saginaw , Michigan , the Boeing 727-31 airliner began a sharp, uncommanded roll to the right, and ...
A new documentary explores a theory that a fifth plane was set to be hijacked on September 11, 2001. ... sky as United Airlines captain Tom Manello went through his pre-flight checks in the early ...
101 names are etched in stone at the memorial dedicated to those who perished on Eastern Flight 401. On Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, survivors, family members, and friends gathered for the unveiling ...
May 1, 1961: First U.S. airline flight hijacked to Cuba. A National Airlines Convair 440 flight from Marathon, Florida, to Key West was hijacked by a man carrying a knife and a gun who demanded the flight divert to Havana. The aircraft, piloted by Captain Francis X. Riley, was thought to be lost at sea for several hours before authorities ...
An elaborate surprise led to tragedy for a family earlier this week when a man accidentally shot and killed his son-in-law. Christopher Bergan, 37, flew from Norway to Gulf Breeze, Fla., to ...