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    Hijacked: The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705
    Hijacked: The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705
    Hijacked: The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705
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    Hijacked: The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705

    By Dave Hirschman

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    “The gripping record of a ‘routine’ Federal Express fast-freight flight . . . that went horribly wrong . . . A moving portrait of three quiet heroes.” —Kirkus Reviews

    David Sanders, Jim Tucker, and Andy Peterson had taken off from Memphis on a regular “out-and-back,” delivering and picking up packages for FedEx’s 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. He’d had his diabolical plan in the works for months: by crashing the plane into the Federal Express Memphis hub, he’d ruin the company, which he felt had treated him unfairly. With superhuman strength fueled by sheer fury, the attacker struck the pilots again and again.

    What he didn’t count on was the skill and intelligence 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 pilot’s point of view and drawing on his own experiences as a pilot to take us inside that fateful day.

    “The bravery of the crewmen shines throughout as they saved the plane, the company, and the community from a major disaster.” —Booklist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9780062850386
    Hijacked: The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705

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