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American Skyjacker: The Final Flight of Martin McNally

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American Skyjacker: The Final Flight of Martin McNally

Imperative Entertainment and Pegalo Pictures

Documentary, Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.7855 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

After the prison escape fails, Mac and Trap are put back on trial for their latest crimes. And in a shocking turn of events, an unlikely ally demands their release at the last minute, utilizing a familiar tactic — the hijacking of another airplane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Pick a little picture. By the Winter of 1978, the Golden Age of hijacking, a period between 1967 and 1972,

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and which over 130 airplanes were skylacked in the U.S.

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was now in the National Rearview.

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Hijacking still happened, sure, but they were few and far between, thanks to some new security measures finally implemented at American airports.

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Months earlier, in the late spring of 1978, Martin McNally, Garrett Trapnell and

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Kenny Johnson had tried and failed to break out of prison.

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Trap Nill had convinced a mother of five, Barbara Oswald, to hijack a helicopter and

1:39.4

landed inside the prison walls, a stunt that ended in her death.

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While Johnson pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him,

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Trapnell and McNally, despite the overwhelming evidence against them, were intent on fighting their charges.

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