The hijacking of American Flight 119

• Verfasst von: Wigger, John H. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The hijacking of American Flight 119
• Titelzusatz: how D.B. Cooper inspired a skyjacking craze and the FBI's battle to stop it
• Verf.angabe: John Wigger
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 1 online resource.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2024. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 21, 2023)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-769603-3
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197695753.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: True Crime
• Sach-SW: Social services & welfare, criminology
• K10plus-PPN: 1868809854
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Beginning in 1968 a wave of airline hijackings swept across the skies over America. There were nearly 150 hijackings of U.S. commercial flight over the next five years. The most audacious of these air pirates were the parachute hijackers, starting with 'D.B. Cooper' and ending with the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 119, the most daring of them all. John Wigger's gripping account of this period is based on fresh interviews and first-hand accounts from FBI agents, flight attendants, pilots, and passengers who were swept up in the heist and the hunt for the hijacker.