1970
HIJACKED * JOE GIBBS ALL STARS * AMALGAMATED 865 * UK
Another instrumental with voice over / DJ cut, who actually does the voice over I don't know. The DJ takes on the voice of a airline pilot whose plane has been hijacked, the narrative then follows the unfolding events until the plane finally lands safely in Cuba Havana. The year this was made saw a turning point in the activity of hijacking of commercial airlines, there had been three attempts before 1970: one in 1948 when a sea plane bound for Hong Kong was taken over by armed men shortly after take off from Macau airport. The second was in in 1952 when a Douglas DC 3 operated by the Philippine national air lines was hijacked by an armed passenger who killed the pilot and purser. The third in 1969 when a KAL (Korean Air Lines) heading for Seoul-Kimpo International Airport was hijacked. 1970 had four separate hijacking incidents alone, more than in all the previous years of commercial flights.
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