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In this episode we explore the coordinated terrorist hijackings of four passenger airliners all bound for New York on the same day on September 6, 1970.  The events were a watershed moment and aviation would never be the same again. 

The four planes involved were: a TWA Boeing 707,  a SwissAir DC-8, a El Al Boeing 707, and a Pan Am Boeing 747 named Clipper Fortune.  A fifth plane, a BOAC Vickers VC 10, was hijacked three days afterward. 

Later in the program we are joined by Pan Am Captain Paul Lachapelle. A 30-year Pan Am veteran who  joined the airline in 1955 flying the 707 and later 747SP. He retired from United Airlines in 1993.

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