Special Report: American Skyjacker (2025)

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4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Mike talks with Eli Kooris and Martin “Mac” McNally about American Skyjacker (2025). The conversation covers the film’s examination of McNally’s 1972 airplane hijacking, his motivations, and the events that followed. Kooris discusses the project’s development and the process of working with archival material, law-enforcement records, and McNally’s own accounts. McNally reflects on the choices he made, the consequences he faced, and how revisiting the story for the documentary differs from living through it. The discussion also addresses the film’s structure, its approach to historical context, and the broader landscape of hijacking cases from the era.

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