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better look at that note. I have a bomb the note to sit down beside him and when she did, the man opened his briefcase inside there were a red cylinders attack to Dwyer's the flight attendant the man's demands to the pilot when the plane landed. He wanted one hundred thousand dollars and four parachutes. Whoa the plane landed the man all of the passengers disembark, but the crew on his hostages. He demanded that they take off again this time in the direction of Mexico City and forty five minutes into the flight. The man strap the cash to himself and jumped off the plane. Search party looked for the man in the cash for days, but we couldn't find either he had just disappeared

It was all over the news. Although the hijacker pseudonym Dan Cooper was misreported as Db Cooper, he still never been found. It's been forty seven years twenty eight year old, Martin Mcnally was driving with a friend in Detroit when he heard about Db Cooper on the radio. At that particular time. I laughed a very loud, and I told my friend the the this in a bad way to make some money Mart and thought how hard could it be if Db Cooper could do it, he could too. I had no experience Bela planes- I never. I never put on a parachute and I never owned a gun. Martin was unemployed. He worked a series of jobs after being discharged from the Navy years earlier. He tried few small time scams once he got busted pudding fake

quarters into a laundromat change machine. Nothing has really worked out, so he threw himself into trying to figure out at a high jack an airplane. First, he went to the local library spent about five hours pulling out bye books on parachuting in world war would adventures in flying and so forth, and it took about four hours to come across the calculation that I wanted and it was an algebra calculation to determine terminal, velocity and one. So I had that. I I wrote down the form and left and went home. Martin did of the calculations himself figuring out how high above the ground the plane should be and how fast it should be going for him to safely jump out and open a parachute.

He was most concerned with how long he would have after the jump before he needed to open parachute he figured he had about fifteen to twenty seconds. The next step was to find the right airport for five months. Martin scout airports across the Midwest he visited, Indianapolis Chicago Saint Louis and Kansas City. He finally chose Saint Louis Lambert Airport. He thought at the worst security he visited two more times to prepare. He bought a ticket with forged navy discharge papers under the name, Robert Wilson. And on the afternoon of June 23rd, one thousand nine hundred and seventy two he walked into the airport, went up to the counter, gave the agent his ticket and boarded the plane We didn't go through any metal detectors at this time. If there had been metal detectors, I would have been on that plane so

was able to get on the plane and with a gun yeah with with my I had a a sort of rifle: it look like world war, two grease gun and I had a pistol. I had a smoke grenade and I was dressed like a businessman suit and tie and sport coat sunglasses. Didn't, have my we on it that time sat down and we we took off. Martin Mcnally was play jump out of a plane, ten thousand feet in the air, going five hundred miles an hour and had a just no idea. What he was doing, I'm Phoebe Judge is criminal. More than a hundred and thirty american planes were hijacked between one thousand nine hundred and sixty eight and one thousand nine hundred and seventy two.

There was more than one case of air piracy. On the same day, if you want to You tried it. Anyone to have tried quite frankly, a lot of people were doing it doing it back then, during the nineteen it was most common for people to board plane and demand to be taken to Cuba, people trying to leave the United States to make a political statement, but also criminals seeking ransom payments, airline companies and the US government came some unusual solutions. Pilots flying to any destination were provided with charts outlining routes to Havana. Just in case hijackings to Cuba were so common that in nineteen sixty eight time magazine published an article advising passengers to just stay calm and enjoy the mojitos, it included tips for the best hotel and cigar shopping.

Went so far as to consider building a fake version of the Havana Airport in Florida, so hijacked planes could land there. Instead, The federal Aviation administration formed an anti hijacking task force and solicited ideas from the public. The public made suggestions like installing trapdoors arming flight attendants with tray flies darts and making everyone on the plane we're boxing gloves. So no one could hold the gun. The obvious solution was just screen: passengers with a metal detector, but airlines thought the inconvenience of walking through a metal detector outweight the inconvenience of being threatened at gunpoint. Ten thousand feet in the air Airlines argued that increased security would be bad, for business customers didn't want to wait in line or feel like criminals on their way to vacation. So

on the afternoon of June 23rd, one thousand nine hundred and seventy two one Martin breezed onto his flight at the Saint Louis Airport. He didn't expect any trouble at all. We too go off and we're on our way to Tulsa Oklahoma in about fifteen minutes out it also, the pilot came on the intercom and you said, will be leaving in about fifteen minutes. So will I am right there and I said this: is it not going to make a decision if I land in the Tulsa and don't pull this thing right now, I'm going to be stuck in Tulsa, ok,. So I said you either pump up your gonads or forget about it. So I as the guy, where the rest. Who was in the plane and said it's in the back on a radiant side. So I picked up my attache case very cautiously

and headed to the bathroom when in the bathroom was the door lock the door and open the attache case and pulled out the pull out the wig and pull out the gloves and then pulled the the rifle Martin says he can the safety back on the rifle. So he wouldn't accidentally fire a bullet into the plane's fuselage. He put on what news papers later described as a hippie type wig. Then he opened the bathroom door and it's down the aisle at the back of the plane- and I was waving waving to this. Tortoises, but nobody knows tortoises could see. Me did see me for about three minutes.

Finally, a US tour is saw me and came back in there. She was a a young lady and she said, don't hurt anybody- and I said young lady- I'm not here- to earning the money, I'm here to give the pilot the a message- and I said, take this note and what did the pilot and come back here immediately. So that's what she did. What did the note say? Did you written it at home? yes, I typed it at home on a typewriter an actually I had the original and the carbon copy, and by mistake I gave these stories to the carbon copy and then every copy, didn't have the read the ball. The type of that was on the original. So it's hard to write. Yeah it would it would. It would are a little harder to read, but it

The pilot willing got the gist of it. This is guy J. Can all I wanted the money, here's the instructions that you need to do in order for the FBI. I want the five hundred two thousand dollars why the extra two thousand one that just make any work- that's been that's been in one that would have been pocket change. This plan was to bury the half million dollar package wherever he happened to land after he jumped out of the plane and use the extra two one thousand dollars to get back home to Michigan pick up his car and drive to Canada. He come back and dig up the half million once things a cooled down, but first he had to get the money. The captain so does the the over the intercom. He said we have a yes really want to go back to Saint Louis. So that's what we're doing back then, when a high

cracker may demand airline policy was total compliance. Martin demanded a new seat at the back of the airplane and a flight attendant as the family moved to make room for him. There was a dude, but all his wife and then had two kids, so wife got up, moved the daughter up to move in son he was about. Or one thousand one hundred and twelve years old. He up into the island turned back and looked at me for a couple of seconds, ten or fifteen seconds and just shook his head, then when turned turn around and went up the first class section and then the old man, the Father of the family. He got up I'm still in the it was about four five in front of me turn around and he was looking at Maine,

and uh. I was looking at him. I was staring at him. I didn't blink and I was thinking at what this guy wants to do here is charged me. He wants me to be blinking and a kick the gun subdue me. Martin says he pointed his gun at the man and they stood staring at each other until the man finally turned and followed his family up to first class, the pilot landed back in Saint Louis. Yes as soon as they landed. Martin says he what the women and children off the plane He didn't want anyone on the tarmac to get too close, so the the inflatable slide and then that wasn't enough to get off and then note there were still a lot of people on the plane. I told stores to tell the pilot that anybody with heart problem. Taking medication or old, so they can get off the plane too. So what the pilot did you gotta comedy? I'm really that message

and under EVA everybody on their plane, so they were going to leave one hundred percent of them. Okay, they all had heart problems. Apparently he needed to thank in the end. He did decide to let almost everyone off the plane, but he kept fifteen healthy men along with the crew's hostage. Once we got all that done, they said what next nice is well. We need to get this plane in the air and tell the pilot to refuel and takes up in the air the plane, circled above Saint Louis for most five hours, while banks and airlines scramble to get together the five hundred thousand dollars. How are these passenger hostage is? Doing? I mean you were in the air with them for men, the hours were they in what was the mood I think that were in good mood. I think the mood to good that mean

The no reasons to be apprehensive about any serious problems I think, but yeah the passengers were ok at any point. But when you were sitting there on the plane, were you feeling guilty? Were you looking at them and kind of wanting to say? I'm less, I'm sorry about this, I'm not actually trying to hurt you No, no, not at all. Of course, I'm not trying to hurt him, I'm not trying to hurt anybody, myself included that I didn't feel so. I didn't feel guilty at all. Just after nine hundred pm the plane made its second landing at the Saint Louis Airport. The money was delivered in a leather mail bag and a small paper bag Martin gave the flight attendants two thousand dollars. He called it a tip because they'd quote been so nice through this thing.

They a few other demands to shovels. Flight goggles five parachutes to harnesses is an altimeter around midnight. Martin released all of the passengers, except for one hostage. The plane was refueled for another. Take off. Everything was on schedule and we are ready to take off. Pilot starts the on the engine were rolling, rolling for take off, starts to go in the engine, and then he stops with the brakes on. He says there's, there's something on the runway and he's. Oh, my god, there's a it's going to hit us a businessman named David Hanley, I've been watching the news of Martins hijacking. He was sitting at the bar the airport Marriott watching the minute by minute updates about the hijacking on

t v. He told every who won at the bar keep their eyes on the screen got into his brain new Cadillac El Dorado and drove to the airport. He then drove through chain link fence around the runway and started driving towards the plane. Eighty miles an hour eighty miles an hour. Think of what's going to happen knows here is going to collapse and the the plane, the cockpit and everything else is going to hit. The concrete and atomic are fully loaded play you can talk about a major explosion there and I'm dead everybody steady at that point, but what the pie, the daddy slammed on the brakes and the plane bounced twice Yes, I moved up twice in my seat. I think of that pointer then came to a stop and I realize we were really hit by Mmhm. Some damn fool

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I give up. He just asked for a new plane would need to be fully fueled and parked as close as pause. They would all have to move from the damaged plane to this new one without anybody, king a run for it and without any, but he getting the chance to aim a gun at Martin, very nervous, very nervous. I would say I was even scared that that's a vulnerable position and I told the pilot to tell the FBI in the ground. I know they got sharp shooters that are going to try to pick me off, and I know they have cameras are trying to get the photos and if I see any uh, any lights, any lights or any beams, this thing could come to a screeching, all very quick with an explosion. I said I don't want it see any. Thank you

Frankie. When we make the move from playing the plane, it took an hour and a half for it to arrive when it did. Martin changed planes using two flight attendants for cover and holding his briefcase over his head. It was almost two hundred and thirty in the morning when they took off from the new plane, twords Torano. He had hoped to take cough Saint Louis by midnight and jump out of the play by one hundred am, but they were now hours behind schedule which both the problem because he knew we needed to jump before the sun came up? So that's what that's what happened? major decision I had to bail out, then that's what I did. Would never use the parachute before. Never in my life, at I put on a parachute, did you have anyone who helped you on the plane? Did you even know how to put this thing on

I do to do it myself get this the harness in situated. As I'm doing this, the for stewardesses standing around me? I told one of them. I You do a clips, these leg leg, straps. I need to get these leg straps put on properly and at one point she says I don't think were spa to be doing this. I said young lady believe me trust me, you're supposed to be doing Everything I tell you to do now. Let's get this hornets taken care of. So that's what happened. I mean I'd be happy to get you off that lane, I'd be just ready to throw you out the door.

Yeah. I guess you would he used twine to tie the forty five pound male bag full of money to his leg. He also threatened his belt through the loop of the bag, to make it more secure and then he was ready to jump. I was very worried. I'm I very worried in. When I was on the plane just getting ready to bail out I had second thoughts and I said yeah. This is this. This is a the. I have some options here. I can go up to the cockpit and give him the gun and him. This is a joke, or I can. Kill myself or I can take a chance on bailing out, I decided well

a better bail out and if I make it fine, if I don't death comes quick, he could only see the clouds below him. The goggles were ripped off of his head. He counted to twenty and pulled the ripcord and when he did, the jolt of the parachute opening was so. Hard, the buckles on the belt holding the money back snapped that wine Is it enough to hold the bag alone in the bag? Went flying the money was gone in the I said, I'm going to do this again in two weeks and uh, I landed on the ground yeah and then my head slammed against the dirt and jumped up. I could see stars

and I heard a lot of dogs are barking lot of dogs barking. I mean the dogs must have known something was up but ice walking towards the trees, because I knew I couldn't get a car my head being smashed up like it was. It was pitch, dark. Ten percent. I laid down the parachute and crew pulled into the parachute and went to sleep. I think what about five hundred o'clock pm that I actually got up and brushed off. My clothes is in my shoes. Shined choose a little bit, but the parachute under the tree and over some leaves. And headed out to a road Martin, no idea where he was, but he is, the FBI was already looking for him. He decided to hitch

big into town. Finally, a car stopped for him, the chief of police, that he was something he was with his wife, and this is about one o'clock you stopped. I said: where are you going? I said I'm going to Detroit, so he he got out of his car. And he came up to me uh and he said Could I see some identification? I said sure so I pulled up on my wallet. I pulled out the driver's license and he said. Have other identification. I said sure. So I showed him some credit cards the guy says: would you like to ride into town It said well yeah. I certainly would thank you before get in his car. I I pull out my pistol and I tossed it about twenty feet. He didn't see it in his white. Didn't see me do that

and then I get in the car and the you said: it's not it's not safe to be on the streets, but tonight there's a lot of excitement. Yeah. I know I've heard about the the search is going on here, for that does skyjacker. So is it yeah? There's a lot of FBI around here. Did I can imagine They drove a couple of miles into town where the police chief dropped Martin off My inclination was to grab a car out. Their car and get out of the area, but then and reflection said no. I can't do that if a car comes up missing here, reported stolen that that chief of police has my name and uh, he could connect two and two. So I said I can't do that.

I I decided I couldn't hit Jake either. It's too hot So I walked around and I notice the bar at the end of the road and at the street there and walked in the bar, earn got up shut down in order to drink you're about to fifteen people in his bar. They were and they were looking at me yeah. They were looking at me and I wondered about that. So I went into the bathroom and I looked in the mirror and I I book a mess both uh eyes were brown and my chin was look like it been ripped and little bloody in my hair. Who is a mess so yeah? I was like. I was messed up there. He put water on his hair and combed it and tried to enough some of the blood. He then

back into the bar and ordered a hamburger and a beer around midnight. He went to a hotel. Motel clerk was listening to radio reports about the hijacker. She joked you're, not the hijacker. Are you Martin smiled and went up to his room? I was looking out the window looking down the street DORA, other cars on the street and there was, two men walking walking down the street and in suits, and they were looking in windows and yeah yeah that I figured they were the FBI. I understand that about two hundred FBI agents, surgeon plus local police and so forth. The money was soon found in a field- buy a soybean farmer. A couple of hours later and uh farmer ran over the gun with his tractor

and their search for marten was intensifying. He had a friend come pick him up and drive him back to Michigan. He did anybody knew who he was so he just went home and immediately he started making plans to do it all again without losing the money. This time he bragged to a friend about it, but Martin didn't know that the FBI was already watching his house. So. You do end up getting arrested. Yes, yes, I do. Almost six days after Martin hijacked the plane, a does FBI agents surrounded him as he walking home one night, they'd found his fingerprints on the plane and on the note that he'd handed to the flight attendant the also searched his house and found ammunition and parts of a gun he was charged with two counts of federal aircraft. Piracy

part of his lawyers, defense, was at the jump. Martin made was impossible. There is no way anyone could have survived it, it didn't work. Martin was given two life sentences and in nineteen seventy three less than a year later, airports started installing metal detectors. I wonder if you ever thought, when you were in the courtroom, hearing the two natch licenses and thinking to yourself. I didn't even get the money here. Of course, I said I got two life sentences and it cost me about two or three thousand dollars to put the put the everything together. This thing took about five months. I did a lot of driving around and Spending a lot of time looking at airports, and the same is sites and getting all the equipment uh to get

heard. The gun and uh uh yeah yeah yeah. I thought that I got the life and I cost me to grand yeah. He feel bad about it. Oh, do I feel bad about it? I I really don't know what to say. I don't feel bad about anything. I I I don't feel bad about anything. We should. I feel bad Martin was sent to Leavenworth Federal penitentiary in Kansas, where one day a fellow hijacker knocked on his door knocked on my door. The can I can I said yes come on in, I said. What's up, he said: how would you like to leave this

place in a helicopter and I the royal law I bought as well I don't know we're going to have to discuss this will have to discuss the details before I'm making. Decision on something like that, but yeah? Let's, let's look into this we'll have that part of the story in our next episode, Criminalist produced by Lawrence for Needy Wilson. In me, audio mix five brought by special thanks to Stephanie, Cohen and Danny with some task June. And Alexander makes original illustrations for each epis sort of criminal. You can see them at thisiscriminal. Dot com where on Facebook and twitter at criminal show criminal is

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