num_pages: 336
description: David Sanders Jim Tucker and Andy Peterson had taken off 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 jet 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 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. 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. Covered in their own blood and exhausted from the struggle the pilots finally managed to subdue their attacker returning the plane safely back to Memphis as heroes.
language: English
title: Hijacked: The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705
publisher: Dell