Hijacked
HIJACKED
by
Edwin Corley (as David Harper)
Dodd, Mead & Company – New York – 1970 Hardcover
Bantam Publishing – New York – 1970 Paperback
Souvenir Press Ltd. – London – 1970 Hardcover
The instructions were found written in bright orange lipstick on the
mirror of one of the restrooms. The note was direct and unequivocal:
THIS IS NO JOKE! I’VE HIDDEN A BOMB ABOARD THIS PLANE. I CAN SET IT OFF
ANY TIME WITH A RADIO…
A few minutes earlier TransAmerica Flight 901 had been a routine flight
from New York to San Francisco. But now the 707 under the command of
Captain Michael O’Hara and his crew had joined the growing armada of
hijacked aircraft – a list which had become so long that it almost
seemed routine, except that the hijacking of Flight 901 was unique.
Neither the passengers nor crew had any idea which of them was the
hijacker, or what final destination the hijacker had planned for the
flight.
For the next several hours officials of the airline, the FBI and other
federal agents on the ground would join with the crew in the air in an
attempt to discover and thwart the hijacker. But the experience of
coping with other hijackings would be of little use in forecasting the
course or destination of Flight 901.
The 1972
motion picture Skyjacked, starring Charleton Heston and
James Brolin, is currently available on DVD and VHS.