The Golden Age of Hijacking

"The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking" is a great new book by journalist Brendan Koerner. Really this book is a must-read for anybody who flies a lot -- especially those who are too young to remember just how prevalent skyjackings used to be in the United States. Koerner tells the gripping, at time preposterous story of a pair of wanna-be radicals who hijacked a Western Airlines flight to Algeria in 1972. But in many ways it's his exhaustively… (www.askthepilot.com) עוד...