The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking

from dougcornelius

It's hard to imagine in these days of TSA security, but over a five-year period starting in 1968, hijackers seized commercial jets nearly once a week. Mr. Koerner uses the hijacking of Western Airlines Flight 701 on June 2, 1972 as the centerpiece of his book, with other tales of hijackings wrapp...

from muddyboy

I absolutely loved everything about this book. The main thrust of it was to follow the man and woman who pulled off probably the most successful hijacking in American aviation history. It follows them as children, when they meet and become lovers, the hijacking event, and then what happens to the...

from cblaker

This book is the story Kathy Kerkow, a free-wheeling hippie and Roger Holder an unstable Army vet who for vague reasons decide to hijack an airplane. The author uses their story to illuminate a period of air travel much different than ours. From the early sixties to the seventies, an almost compl...

from chrisblocker

I don't read much non-fiction. When I do, it's often for research. Every once in a while I pick up a non-fiction book that looks interesting to me and give it a read. And more often than not I find myself engrossed in the story. Probably I should see this as a sign that I need to read more of the...

from ScoutJ

In this upcoming work, Koerner tells the story of the "epidemic" of hijacking in the United States during the late 1960s to mid-1970s. Focusing on one particular case, that of Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow, the author interweaves smaller vignettes about other incidents throughout, tracing the ris...