Most strangest hijackings that actually happend
Have you ever wanted attention so bad that you did something extreme that you would never normally do? Well, then you wouldn't be alone, because there are plenty of people that have done some really intense things, like hijacking something, to get attention, and boy, did they get their points across. But as you'll soon see, unsuccessfully. Here are the five strangest hijackings that actually happened.
5)bumbling hijacker.
A Philippines Airlines flight was hijacked in May of 2000 by a man who was both resourceful and bumbling at the same time. The hijacker was later identified as Reginald Chua, and he no doubt considered his plan to take all 278 passengers hostage as genius. After smuggling a grenade and a handgun on board, he fired a bullet into a bulkhead and demanded to be let into the cockpit. When the pilots refused, he then forced the passengers to fill a bag with their valuables and then ordered the pilot to descend so that the plane would depressurize and he could jump out with his parachute to escape. Sounds like the perfect plan, except his parachute was homemade and uh, had no rip cord, and was made from a curtain. Three days later, he was found embedded in a mud field.
4) beer jacker.
In June of 1985, a Norwegian Boeing 737 and its 116 passengers was heading from Trondheim to Oslo. It seems that cabin fever or air rage got the better of one of the passengers, as he decided to take his frustrations out on all that boarded the plane. Holding five crew members hostage with a pistol that he was carrying, the passengers were allowed to disembark once they landed. The hijacker refused to release the crew and demanded to speak with the minister of justice. You'd think his demands were to fly to another country to avoid prosecution or to have someone that he cared about released from prison, no. No, he just had one simple demand, and Matt, what was that demand? It was to be given a nice, cold pitcher of beer.
3)North Korean agent.
A Korean airliner once found itself at the center of an international dispute. During December of 1969, the NAMC YS-11 aircraft was carrying domestic passengers from Seoul, in South Korea. 10 minutes after takeoff, a passenger leaped up from his seat, rushed past the cabin crew, and entered the cockpit. After incapacitating the flight crew, the hijacker altered the plane's flight path. Once in North Korean airspace, the plane was escorted by three North Korean fighter jets, and when the plane landed in Sonduk Airfield, North Korean soldiers forcibly boarded the plane, blindfolded all the passengers, and took them to a secret location. Bizarrely, as it turned out, the hijacking had been orchestrated by North Korean secret agents. After 39 days of negotiations, North Korea released the 39 passengers, but 11 remain missing to this day.
2) heroic plot.
In April of 1994, a Federal Express flight engineer called Oborn Colloway was about to lose his job. Facing financial ruin, Oborn hijacked a flight to California. His plan was to crash the plane to get back at his employers and make sure his family received $2.5 million in life insurance for his death. Knowing all of the security procedures, he was able to smuggle several hammers on the plane in a guitar case. He intended on killing the crew with the hammers so that the injuries would be consistent with a crash. There would be no evidence of his hijacking because he disabled the voice recorder on board. So Oborn attacked the flight crew during the flight, fracturing their skulls, but the quick thinking of the pilot saved the day. He sent the plane into a steep dive, throwing Oborn against the ceiling. From there, people were able to subdue him and well, the rest is history, he went to jail.
1) religious conspiracy.
On May 2nd, 1981, Lawrence James Downey hijacked the plane that he was on. Flight 164 was traveling from Dublin to London. Just five minutes before the plane was due to land at Heathrow Airport, Downey locked himself in the toilet and covered himself in fuel. Wait, where did he get fuel from? Okay anyways, let's continue. He threatened to set himself on fire if the pilot did not listen to his demands. Downey ordered the pilot to fly to Iran, but when the pilot informed him that were wasn't enough fuel on board, they settled for France. The plane was diverted to Le Touquet Airport. After landing, Lawrence James Downey made his demands known. The pope was to release the third secret of Lady Fatima for the world to see. No one had a clue what Downey was talking about, and he was arrested shortly afterwards. I suspect he went on to write The Da Vinci Code. That was Dan Brown? Okay then this guy was just an idiot.
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