He would target a prominent medical conference outside Rome, and draw attention to the negligence that had cost his wife and son their lives. "Take me to Naples," Minichiello ordered Pietro Guli. "I was confused at first," Turner said, "but when I really got to thinking about it, I knew he had had some issues and it all came together.
Photographers and reporters turned out en masse at Bangor's airport terminal.Close to 75 police officers ensured the press stayed as far as possible from the plane in case the gunman was provoked again.
All of us were confused when we left Vietnam.
They'd never been to Hong Kong, that could be fun.Nearby, Judi Provance's training kicked in. D-ABCE) named the Landshut that was hijacked on the afternoon of 13 October 1977 by four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who called themselves Commando Martyr Halima.The objective of the hijacking was to secure the release of imprisoned Red Army Faction leaders in German prisons. I don't know what you're talking about. Those living on the surface, in one of the most earthquake-prone parts of Europe, were used to this. An off-duty TWA flight attendant, she was returning home to San Francisco after eight days on rota flying around Asia. Passengers and crew are safely off the plane. "The two new pilots, who were in no mood to humour the hijacker, took charge of the plane.
"I mistrust institutions, so I give help personally," he said. Lufthansa Flight 181 was a Boeing 737-230C jetliner (reg.
"Then I thought: we are taught to forgive. Minichiello, stretched out in first class with the gun at his side, had calmed down.
The main lesson they had been taught was to stay calm. They drilled that into us from the beginning.
He travelled to San Diego to enlist in the Marine Corps, and for those who knew him - a little stubborn, a little gung-ho - this did not come as a surprise.Minichiello barely spoke English, and had been teased for his thick Neapolitan accent by his classmates before dropping out of school altogether.
Minichiello under arrest in Rome: "What plane? "He felt he would be shot if he came to the window.
Their mission was brutally simple.
"I don't know." "Why did I do it?"
Had it damaged the fuselage, the plane would not have been able to fly on.
he replied.
But as more questions flowed, and Minichiello began to explain what had happened to him, the group grew closer.Minichiello seemed different to Williams - smaller, more softly spoken. It was terrible.
one reporter asked.
Minichiello, seen here in the court building, concocted an even more outlandish plot in 1985 "Why should I be?"
Then he asked about the other members of the crew and I said: 'Yeah, all of them are married.'"
July 5, 1972: Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 was hijacked by two Bulgarian immigrants shortly after take-off from Sacramento, California en route to San Francisco.
Eighteen years later, a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck southern Italy, its epicentre barely 20 miles from the one in 1962.This was the most powerful earthquake to strike Italy in 70 years, and it caused enormous damage across the Irpinia region. "Coleman, in an interview with TWA Skyliner magazine after the hijacking, said she knew what was at stake. It was not enough to pay for a visit to Italy to see his dying father.Minichiello raised his concerns with his superiors, and insisted he be given the $200 he felt he was owed. The hijacking ended when the captain and passengers overcame and killed the lone hijacker after the plane landed in Saigon. "Before that, he was always sane." For the most part he was polite, respectful and came across, in her words, as "a nice clean-cut kid", but by now paranoia was getting the better of him.Delmonico remembered the captain's instruction: don't knock to enter, ring the bell instead. The crew inside the cockpit feared for their lives, but some of the passengers felt they were part of an adventure. Soon afterwards, a shot rang out.The accepted version of events now is that Minichiello did not intend to shoot. At the end was a room swarming with FBI agents, who had rushed to the airport at short notice and were waiting to take statements from the 39 passengers and three flight attendants.The members of Harpers Bizarre remembered what their manager had once told them: if they were ever involved in any trouble, anything at all, they were to call him first, even before they got to a police station or hospital.
The bullet pierced the ceiling and glanced off an oxygen tank, but did not penetrate it or the plane's fuselage. "If you've made any plans in San Francisco," he said, "don't plan on keeping them.
He was awarded the Cross of Gallantry, which was given out by the government of South Vietnam to those who had displayed heroic conduct in the war.Adjusting to daily life back in the US proved impossible. Could those on board ever forgive him?Under the hills of southern Italy, a little north-east of Naples, a fault ruptured and the earth began shaking.
"In 2019, Turner looks back with some shame at what they were ordered to do, and how they complied. He vowed to clip him around the ear when he next saw him.Another reason for the hijacking soon emerged.
Eventually it reached a dead end and both men stepped out of the car. "Food wasn't exactly much of an issue," Williams told the BBC.
"As TWA85 crossed time zones on its approach to Ireland, and 31 October became 1 November, Minichiello turned 20. An odd one, but an adventure nevertheless.It was only natural that people on board TWA85 thought they might be heading to Cuba.
An estimated two million people across the US had taken part in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam - reported as the biggest demonstration in American history - two weeks before the hijacking.The lottery drafting young Americans to fight was still a month away from being enforced, but many thousands of young men had already volunteered, believing back then that the cause - to fight the communists of North Vietnam - was valid.