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Podcast: Rotten Mango
Episode: #67: 105 Hostages - The Hijacking of Flight 701 (Case of Roger Holder & Cathy Kerkow)
Description: 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.Â
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.Â
And for decades they got away with it - because the sky is the limit.
Source: "The Skies Belong To Us" - by Brendan I. Koerner (ho...