Episode 67: 105 Hostages - The Hijacking of Flight 701 (Case of Roger Holder & Cathy Kerkow)
A man with a briefcase entered the cockpit of Western Flight 701. The man tells the pilots there are 2 bombs on the plane and a grenade in his suitcase.
For 20 hours - a couple terrorized the entire flight in hopes of having their demands met. They wanted $3 million dollars in cash, 5 parachutes, a woman on trial for murder to be handed over to them, and a flight to Vietnam.
And for decades they got away with it - because the sky is the limit.
Source notes:
Book - “The Skies Belong to Us” - By Brendan I. Koerner
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/dt/catherine-marie-kerkow
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/27/nyregion/ex-black-panther-extradited-to-us.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2019/09/how-coos-bays-all-american-girl-became-a-daring-skyjacker-then-disappeared-into-1970s-underground.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-18-me-3264-story.html
https://apnews.com/article/6008e018b5a449d0992237980489bcb4
https://nypost.com/2013/06/16/what-do-i-wear-to-a-hijacking/
https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/news/san-diegos-own-bonnie-clyde/
https://www.wired.com/2013/06/love-and-terror-in-the-golden-age-of-hijacking/
https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11326472/hijacking-airplanes-egyptair
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