Can a Gift Aid the Ransom?

In the early 19 seventies, when they'd started sort of screening passengers to see who looked like they might be carrying weapons, tors at airports in America reported that they'd find just guns and knives and stuff strewn around. So eventually he just i this plane, am, and he smuggled a gun on, and he demanded that they do an emergency landing. When they landed, they had to have a hundred million dollars waiting for him. If you get that kind of money, is that tax free? How does it work? Is i thin a gift? I i a so gific. Hy jackers weren't all bad, like i think sometimes. They were just like disturbed