The hijacking of American Flight 119 : how D.B. Cooper inspired a skyjacking craze and the FBI's battle to stop it / John Wigger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wigger, John H., 1959- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hijacking of aircraft--United States--Case studies.

Hijacking of aircraft.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Beginning in 1968 a wave of airline hijackings swept across the skies over America. There were nearly 150 hijackings of U.S. commercial flight over the next five years. The most audacious of these air pirates were the parachute hijackers, starting with 'D.B. Cooper' and ending with the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 119, the most daring of them all. John Wigger's gripping account of this period is based on fresh interviews and first-hand accounts from FBI agents, flight attendants, pilots, and passengers who were swept up in the heist and the hunt for the hijacker.

Contents:

Cover

The Hijacking of American Flight 119

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Author's Note

Prologue

PART I. The Heist

1. The Hijacking

2. Sharon Wetherley

3. David Spellman

4. The Friendly Skies

5. Heinrick von George

6. The Money

7. Mohawk Airlines Flight 452

8. The Pilots

9. The Parachutes

10. D.B. Cooper

11. Tom Parker

12. Richard McCoy

13. The Switch

14. David Hanley

15. Cadillac Impact

16. The Boeing 727

17. Snipers

18. Chase Planes

19. A Short History of Parachuting

20. Wheels Up

21. The Jump

PART II. The Chase

22. The Call

23. Dead or Alive

24. Peru, Indiana

25. Nowhere Man

26. The Sketch

27. Survivors

28. The Money, the Guns, and the Pants

29. Show Me the Money

30. Tell Me Your Name

31. The Parachute

32. The Tip

33. A Life of Crime

34. The Plan

35. A Ride Home

36. The Informant

37. Fingerprints

38. The Arrest

39. Evidence

40. Fallout

41. Hijacker's Heaven

PART III. Connecting Flights

42. How It Began

43. Take Me to Cuba

44. Anywhere but Here

45. Hijack House

46. Security

47. Ransoms

48. A Means of Escape

49. The Trial

50. Prison Break

51. Finding D.B. Cooper

52. Arrivals

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 21, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-769603-1

0-19-769576-0

0-19-769577-9

OCLC:

1394910090