Skyjacking
99% Invisible
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The History of the Hosts
In 1972, three fugitives from the law hijack a Southern Airways Flight 49. They wanted $10 million and said if they didn't get it, they were going to crash the plane into Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The solution that we all know they eventually came up with, screening everybody and their luggage with X-ray machines and requiring ID wasn't seriously considered until one hijacking changed everything.
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