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    Injured Reserve Vashner's Avatar
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    This was in 1994 but I just heard about it myself..

    Some idiot tried to take over a DC10 Fed ex plane.

    http://www.tailstrike.com/070494.htm

    April 7, 1994: FedEx Flight 705 was scheduled to depart the company’s home hub of Memphis, Tennessee for a routine flight to San Jose, California at a little after 3:00 in the afternoon. As Captain David Sanders, co-pilot Jim Tucker and engineer Andy Peterson boarded the aircraft, they were somewhat startled to see Auburn Calloway already on board, settled into the flight engineer’s station and initiating pre-flight procedures. Although it was not unusual for FedEx employees to hitch rides on regular flights—a practice termed “jumpseating”—it was a pronounced breach of protocol for such deadheaders to interfere with flight operations. They said nothing, though, and Calloway wordlessly gave his seat to Andy Peterson. He strapped himself into a jumpseat aft of the pit. At his feet was a guitar case, the only baggage he had brought on board.

    Less than thirty minutes into the flight, the bloodbath began

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    Slovenian Master Slomo's Avatar
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    This was in 1994 but I just heard about it myself..

    Some idiot tried to take over a DC10 Fed ex plane.

    http://www.tailstrike.com/070494.htm
    I saw a do entary about it on NGC or Discovery. It was a blood bath!

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    Believe. Wallace ˛'s Avatar
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    What a nut. I have never heard of that before.

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    I abhor ugliness Vizzini's Avatar
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    That's pretty f'ed up. I too have never heard this story before. Are we now to fear FedEx as huge conglomorate silencing machine?

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