He planned to crash the aircraft hoping that he would appear to be an employee killed in an accident.
After the defense failed to impress the court with other arguments regarding technicalities, a grand petit jury convicted Calloway of attempted aircraft piracy and sentenced him to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
Just then, Tucker put the plane into a steep dive.Calloway managed to hit Sanders again while the struggle continued. ... God Bless You, Auburn Calloway Posted by P.S. Lompoc, CA 95436 Auburn Calloway was sentenced to life in prison without parole. When the plane was completely level, Tucker reported to Memphis Center, informed them about the attack and requested a vector back to Memphis.The flight crew eventually succeeded in restraining Calloway, although only after moments of inverted and near-Heavily loaded with fuel and cargo, the plane was approaching too fast and too high to land on the scheduled runway 9. The guideline range for offense level 38, absent any significant prior criminal history (and Mr. Calloway had none), is imprisonment for 235-293 months. What Calloway hadn't counted on was the tenacity of that flight crew; despite gaping head wounds that penetrated their skulls and caused partial paralysis, the three men fought back. The tower thought it had misunderstood; "say again? Despite loud ringing in his ear and being dazed, Peterson grabbed the gun by the spear between the barbs and the barrel. Due to the severity of their head injuries, David Sanders, Jim Tucker and Andy Peterson were permanently grounded and never flew again. The aircraft itself incurred damages in the amount of $800,000. It's no wonder, then, that the Memphis Tower requested clarification more than once as to what airline was declaring an emergency due to an attempted takeover on April 7. A lengthy struggle ensued, while Tucker, also an ex-Eventually, Tucker had rolled the plane almost upside down at 140 degrees, while attempting to maintain a visual reference of the environment around him through the windows.
" it radioed the pilot, not understanding how a cargo plane could be undergoing an attempted takeover.FedEx 705 was ultimately cleared for landing on any runway it could manage. He is presently jailed in a federal prison near Atwater, California. The only baggage he'd brought aboard was a guitar case. Sanders suffered several deep gashes in his head and doctors had to sew his right ear back in place. The judge did not agree, and he told them so. That maneuver threw Calloway off-balance and allowed Sanders and Peterson to tackle him and hold him down. Commutations can be controversial if the "reduction" is, arguably, not a reduction. They said nothing, however, and he relinquished the engineer's chair and settled in the jump seat.Less than 30 minutes into the flight, Calloway opened his guitar case and produced a claw hammer, which he used to rain blows on the heads of Captain David Sanders, First Officer Jim Tucker and Flight Engineer Andy Peterson. Calloway managed to wrench his hammer hand free and hit Sanders in the head again. The DC-10 went into a dive at over 500 mph, something the craft was not designed to do, but somehow Tucker, with only one working hand, managed to pull out of the dive and radio the tower with an emergency call.
Perhaps the most high-profile commutations are those that change a death sentence to life in prison, or life in prison without the possibility of parole. Flight engineer Peterson's skull was fractured and his temporal artery severed. Both Peterson and first officer Tucker suffered fractured skulls, and Peterson's When Calloway ceased his hammer attack, Peterson and Sanders began to get out of their seats to counter-attack. Airplane hijackings were not uncommon in 1994, but usually such extreme actions were undertaken by fringe terrorist groups with a political statement to make, and who usually used a large passenger jet to make said statement.
The crew of Flight 705 sustained serious injuries. Auburn Calloway 14601-076 Lompoc USP 3901Klein Blvd. Calloway left the cockpit and retrieved his spear gun.