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The Hijacker (Revisited)

PRETEND

Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week, we revisit one of PRETEND's most popular episodes. It's called the Hijacker and it's a collaboration with my friend Chris Knittel. Hear Martin McNally describe the day he hijacked a plane. ________ Story idea? If you have a story to share, email Javier at [email protected]. For more episodes like this, visit pretendradio.org. To get early releases and bonus episodes, go to pretendradio.org/donate Today's episode was written and edited by Javier Leiva Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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if something goes wrong. Hey guys, this may have you recently on Twitter and Facebook

0:40.6

and Instagram and even my Patreon supporters. I asked them, what is your all-time favorite

0:46.6

pretend episode? And as you can imagine, the responses were all over the place. But there

0:51.9

was one series that stood out and that was the hijacker. It was a collaboration with

0:57.4

my friend, Chris Niddle. Now, I don't typically listen to my podcast, but I kind of want to

1:03.3

listen to this episode. And so even if it's your first time listening to it or if you've

1:08.1

heard it before, check it out because it is so intense, it's worth revisiting. So here

1:14.6

it is, part one and part two of the hijacker.

1:27.8

Today's episode is another collaboration with my buddy, my partner, my badass extraordinaire,

1:34.3

Chris Niddle, with the Burnerphone podcast.

1:51.9

It's 1972. And you're slowly filing into an American Airlines Boeing 727 with 90 other

1:59.4

passengers right behind you. A young man going by the name of Robert Wilson enters a plane.

2:14.1

He may sound like an old man now, but back in 1972, he was a fresh face 28-year-old

2:20.4

dressed in a sports coat and yellow trousers. Oh, and his name wasn't really Robert Wilson.

2:27.9

It was Martin McNally. He wasn't a businessman either. McNally was here to hijack this plane.

2:34.9

I'm Javier Leva and this is Pretend Radio. Stories about real people pretending to be

2:42.4

someone else.

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