Hijacked: The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705

ISBN: 0062824287

Author: Hirschman, Dave

Condition: New

The incredible true story of three pilots flying a routine Federal Express flight who must call on their inner courage, strength, and ability to stop a bitter, suicidal hijacker from killing them, and thousands of people below.David Sanders, Jim Tucker, and Andy Peterson had taken off on a regular out-and-back, delivering and picking up packages for FedExs next-day service. They had one jumpseat passenger, an off-duty colleague who they assumed was simply taking advantage of the FedEx perk allowing virtually all employees to ride the company jets for free. The shock came twenty minutes later.Before the plane had reached its normal cruising altitude, the lone passenger attacked the pilots with hammers and a spear gun. Hed had his diabolical plan in the works for months: by crashing the plane into the Federal Express Memphis hub, hed ruin the company, which he felt had treated him unfairly. In a relentless and brutal assault, the passenger struck the pilots again and again.What he didnt count on was the skill and teamwork of the pilots. While Sanders and Peterson tried to stop the relentless battering, copilot Tucker swung the aircraft into dangerous flight maneuvers in an attempt to literally knock the man off his feet.In Hijacked, Dave Hirschman vividly re-creates this hair-raising battle of wills, giving each pilots point of view and drawing on his own experiences as a pilot to take us inside that fateful day.