Skyjacking
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The Rise and Fall of the Skyjackings
Airlines fought to keep things exactly as they were. They thought that if they treated all their customers kind of like criminal suspects because they were merely flying, people wouldn't fly anymore. The notion that this could really be something destructive and turn into mass murder was not on people's minds at that time.
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