TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koerner,Brendan I.
TI  - The skies belong to us: love and terror in the golden age of hijacking 
SN  - 0307886107
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown Publishers
KW  - Hijacking of aircraft
KW  - United States
KW  - Case studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-308) and index
N2  - 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 foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. The longest-distance hijacking in American history took place in 1972 when a shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl, Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow, commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague war protest. Through a combination of savvy and dumb luck, the couple managed to flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom, a feat that made them notorious around the globe. Journalist Brendan I. Koerner spent four years chronicling this madcap tale, which involves a cast of characters ranging from exiled Black Panthers to African despots to French movie stars.--From publisher description
ER  -