What Happened During the Golden Age of Hijackings

[@spddiesel]

I was born in '73, and as a kid I had three fears of dying; nuclear war with the USSR, quicksand, and being hijacked and taken to Beirut. I had no idea what or where Beirut was, but I was reasonably sure I would die there. Now I'm older and have dismissed those ridiculous notions, because I'm sure I'm gonna die in an earthquake while going over a bridge.

[@imzackson]

lol

[@steamedclam1]

I think it’s because of Delta Force lol. I had those fears too!

[@spddiesel]

@@steamedclam1 dude, I love that movie. My dad (a former active duty marine) took me to see it and gave a hearty "hoo-rah!" in the theater when Chuck dotted the eyes, so to speak.

[@zvbx]

Quicksand. That’s funny.

[@ansonbrik7329]

So specific for the location?

[@paulccrimmins]

Hard to believe it wasn't until 1973 that a screening process was established for everyone at most airports.

[@leannwinter1798]

Seriously! I always thought our airports were sitting ducks!

[@TheHandleOnYoutube]

It happens once, it wont happen again.

[@Itschimp157]

@@TheHandleOnKZbin the lady said in regards to sex with the man

[@syguzman5739]

@Joe Blow ➡️ Except that many lower class members of society travel by bus or train, like Greyhound or Amtrak because those prices are often more affordable compared to plane tickets. It's usually the middle class who travels by plane because (1) you need identification to travel by plane (drivers license, passport, etc.) and (2) the cost of flights are significantly higher than bus or train. Plus, (3) if you have a layover between flights, the food and beverages at airports are priced significantly higher than a bus stop cafe in the middle of the country. You would know that if you had class 😎 LOL!!

[@milli2901]

Crazy a lot the practices used after 9/11 weren’t already in place

[@111highgh]

On this day in Weird History: May 9th, 1980, the original Friday the 13th was released in theaters. Happy 41st Anniversary.

[@snakebitepellehue]

Wait, it wasn't released on an actual Friday the 13th? Shame on them!

[@adamjenks9613]

“Golden Age of Hijackings” is a phrase I never thought I’d hear. Great video, Weird History. Happy Mother’s Day!!

[@melissah287]

I would love to see a video about the blackout in NYC in 1977. I was only 8 but it's one of the first news I really remember happening.

[@commonomics]

You’d think they’d install a bullet proof door and start locking it

[@Itschimp157]

I got an idea just lock the door... I'm dying

[@Luigi110067]

Nothing is bullet proof only bullet resistant

[@jimmym3352]

@@Luigi110067 6 inches of solid steel. You aren't getting anything through airport security that can get through that.

[@imzackson]

works great till one of the pilots goes nuts like over in germany

[@soshiangel90]

That didn't happen till after 2001. Yeah.... Took that long....

[@LestrangeChild]

Ah yes, the peaceful idyllic "golden age" of... *checks notes* plane hijacking.

[@cattibingo]

@Imgladandrew gillumisnotmykang fun fact: allahu akabar means "yeeargh" in Arabic

[@thunderbird1921]

"This plane's going to Cuba!"

[@MarquisVonMonster]

Shaddup it’s interesting

[@k_a_y_l_e_e]

also, to add to the mood, lots and lots of serial killers.

[@tiffprendergast]

@@cattibingo no god is great

[@Toxos517]

It's a real shame that tranquilizer dart wielding stewardesses didn't become a thing

[@fourfurrypotatoes]

She could use it on a hole passengers 😂

[@thunderbird1921]

Or tasers. "ARRRRGGGGGHHH!" MAN, THAT would be entertaining!

[@thehangmansdaughter1120]

I've seen a few travelers who could have used a good jab.

[@lr2564]

Love the Cuban national anthem suggestion....I would like to suggest we do that nowadays with the baby shark song.

[@brennaeidenier6537]

😂😂😂😂 that was hilarious, thank you for this gem!

[@mugofbrown6234]

That's evil!😂

[@lesbw356]

We had a relative on the plane that DB Cooper was on. He was terrified during the hijacking..

[@GD15555]

Who? Cooper?

[@lesbw356]

@@GD15555 the hijacker DB Cooper.

[@cattibingo]

Weren't the passengers unaware of the hijacking?

[@dynasty0019]

@@cattibingo The crew members were aware though.

[@Wings_of_foam]

@@tiggie_96 Joke?

[@skoltrollkallamik4450]

27 years after teaching pilots how to handle hijackers by having maps, spanish-language notecards and such, they came up with the idea to lock the freaking cockpit door.

[@alansaxena7934]

"golden age of hijackings" doesnt sound so flattering does it?

[@mattskustomkreations]

A friend of mine led a Forrest Gump- like life where he ran into famous people or just plain WEIRD things happened to him. When he was 13 or 14 he won some type of “ambassadorship”/scholarship where he was sponsored to go to the 1972 Olympics in Munich Germany. And since it was the early 70’s he was put on a plane by himself without a chaperone. On the flight over he realized he was starting to feel feverish and started sweating profusely. And just his luck, a flight attendant took his uneasiness and sweating to be signs he was up to no good! (It may have been right after the infamous terrorist episode that happened at the games so everyone was on edge). So when he got off the plane he was detained. And GRILLED. He also had the dumb luck that he fit the description of a wanted Terrorist! He kept trying to explain, “Look, I’m a KID! I have no idea what you’re talking about! I need to see a DOCTOR! Please call my mom and dad!” The German cops held him for hours. Finally the cops allowed a doctor to see him. The doctor, an old Jewish man with white hair and beard took one look at him, and said “Oi Vey, he’s got da Cheekin Pox! Und he’s just a keed!” The German authorities, being both embarrassed and not wanting an infected person on their hands just put him on the next plane back to New York. You can imagine how miserable the trip back was and he never got to attend the Olympics.

[@seekertosecrets]

Awwwwwwww! Also he sounds like a very interesting guy! Would love to hear more!

[@mattskustomkreations]

@@seekertosecrets Mike’s life was just crazy, there are so many stories! I kept telling him he MUST write a book. But he was a little too “scatter-brained” in that he was an incredible artist and inventor but I doubt he could sit still enough to write a book. He was so left brained/creative that he was a starving artist-His friends handled his business affairs. He met a lot of famous people by being on the wait staff of a super-fancy conference center. Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, and Dr. Ruth Westheimer are among the people I remember him mentioning. On another gig he was Pink Floyd’s bartender for a week. An intoxicated Bill Murray wandered into the kitchen at a country club where he was a cook. The list goes on. As a naive college student he got roped into being a courier for some shady deal involving Baby Doc Duvalier of Haiti and a Texas oil baron. He had some splaining to do with the FBI on that one - probably the most Forrest Gumpy thing he did. Kinda funny how as a kid he was suspected of international subterfuge only to get sucked into a similar thing in real life as a young man!

[@seekertosecrets]

@@mattskustomkreations Someone really needs to archive his adventures, man!

[@chainsawFirewood89]

Today is my grandpa Harold Johnson 50th anniversary highjackig from Southern Airways Flight 49 November 10th 1972 he flew a DC-9 it ended in Cuba the the hijackers wanted 10 million dollars, 10 parachutes, there was only three hijackers, 10 buckets KFC fried Chicken honestly, 10 cases of Budweiser beer as well William Hass and Harold Johnson, Fidel Castro saved my grandpa and gave him a Cuban cigar from him Fidel Castro personally I still have the cigar he's alive and I guess today will be shooting on region 8 news on it!!

[@mattskustomkreations]

@@chainsawFirewood89 Wow, that is crazy!! 1972 I think was a peak year for hi-jacking. Seems like there was one a week. The “security” efforts were non-existent, I never understood it. Plus, anyone who WANTS to go and STAY in Fidel’s Cuba should just be put on one plane and given a free ride there. I was a kid then and though scary, I thought the whole thing was ridiculous.

[@blameyourself4489]

One year I avoided a hijacking, a train crash and an aircraft crash too. It was a good year!

[@neoasura]

Jesus, you got someone up there looking out for you.

[@BillLaBrie]

I’ve avoided all those for over 50 years.

[@watchgoose]

I remember those days.... we lived in Miami and my father was an airline pilot. However, he came to each flight well prepared!

[@-..-..-..-.]

Yeah condoms are always a good idea

[@kyleshiflet9952]

D.B. COOPER was and still is the king of air hijackings and firmly believe he survived

[@cattibingo]

No way, he was super dead after jumping

[@PopeyeBjj86]

Himdal saved him come on

[@kyleshiflet9952]

@@cattibingo I dont think so I think he made it look like he died to throw the FBI off his trail

[@kyleshiflet9952]

@@PopeyeBjj86 lol

[@morisco56]

Yeah he survived, what a chad

[@tng2057]

There were 2 interesting suggestions by experts in the early 70s, that 1) all US airport departure lounges should periodically play the Cuban national anthem, and let security people catch those who stood up for the anthem, and 2) US government should build a mock Havana airport in the US aiming to trap the hijackers after the planes land. Have they been implemented?

[@taetv8314]

Yesss I’m here for the aviation vids - AAL veteran here ☺️

[@h.r.hufnstuf4171]

ain't watched yet but I'd assume hijackings happened during the golden age of hijackings, I got a good feeling about this guess

[@bradley163]

I think you may be on to something here...

[@kellanaldous7092]

Got it in one!

[@h.r.hufnstuf4171]

@Jay Porter No worrys, Jay.

[@cattibingo]

Galaxy brain

[@Lamtitude]

Or what I like to call, the good ol’ days

[@miomimomiro]

3:30 Captain Joseph Gordon-Lewitt!

[@dougsteel7414]

I tried to hijack an EasyJet flight, I was blind drunk and burst into the cockpit with a knife. They didn't notice, and when I got back someone had taken my seat.

[@Hannah-fs1oh]

I guess Archie Bunker on All in the Family wasn't too far off the mark when he suggested that every passenger should be issued a gun. No one would try to take over a plane if they knew they were going to have 100 or more guns pointed at them.

[@JM-xr4zs]

AH the good old days when you could get a free trip to Cuba.

[@jevinday]

you guys never fail to deliver on super interesting topics. i love it.

[@pancakeprince3439]

Considering how many attempted hijackings there were back then, I'm kinda amazed it took until 9/11 for airports to really get very serious with their security. Lots of people complain about how long and annoying it is to be screened and checked, but I'm grateful for it. Would much rather take an hour or two in line than go through a situation like that.

[@r5t6y7u8]

Airports in the US installed metal detectors in the early 1970s, and skyjackings dropped almost to nothing. So terrorists moved to other countries. By 2001 a gun or bomb in luggage would get you arrested, but pocket-knives and box cutters were still okay. After 9-11 *everything* was banned.

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

LOL I didn't know there was a "golden age" for hijackings

[@Nmdixon-cu7vm]

That was my first thought. It sounds like it was the roaring 20’s or something. Lol.

[@maciejszeremeta964]

There was a golden age of piracy on the seas between 1650 and 1730, so there had to be one in the air as well...

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

I want to hear the Cuban national anthem before my flight to Miami

[@briansinger5258]

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[@bradley163]

I was caught skyjacking. Now I'm on a registry, and I have to tell everyone in my neighborhood.

[@D0ZALovesHouse]

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[@DS_IndustrieZ]

I just did time for a drive-by car jacking and had to register. I was caught jacking at a red light in a damn school zone. On top of already being on probation for cradlerobbing taking a cradle box from a retail store. 🤫☣️

[@RavensSoTired]

😅

[@mfaizsyahmi]

not quite the mile high club but sure

[@crystalmethking]

dirty boy!!

[@Melissa0774]

I remember when I was two years old and I went with my parents to pick up my uncle at Love Field in Dallas in 1988 or 89, I think. I had this stuffed Felix the Cat doll that I took everywhere with me. They made me put it through the x ray machine. I thought that was so weird. I thought, did they think someone cut the head off, hid a gun inside and sewed the head back on? Maybe a hijacker would try to sneak a gun onto a plane by hiding it inside a stuffed animal and giving it to their kid? I was only TWO YEARS OLD and I thought that. It amazes me that I can actually remember that. Looking back now, I wonder how I even knew about stuff like that at such a young age in the late 80's. I must have seen it in movies or heard about this stuff on TV, but I don't remember that. This video made me think that I must have heard about this stuff on TV or something, a lot more than I realized, because I didn't know there actually were so many hijackings back in the day. I thought it was mostly just something that happened in movies.

[@Wulfpack1]

So weird to hear "hijacking" in conjunction with the term "Golden Age". Lol

[@mickeyj6055]

Sound like a documentary

[@kaiyote7924]

04:02 they literally said: "all bubble blowing babies will be beaten senseless by every parton on the plane"... 'thats right, dont think we dont know how to weeeeeeed em out' *plays goofy goober*

[@blueberrypirate3601]

You're the goofy goober yeah!

[@mickeyj6055]

@@blueberrypirate3601 but wait. WE’RE ALL GOOFY GOOBERS YEA 🗣

[@maryannkundert3476]

If we've learned anything, everyone is an expert on everything. I'm dying 😂

[@DelightLovesMovies]

I love Weird History documentaries.

[@madlad_]

you guys should make a video about the golden age of TV hijacking

[@lanacampbell-moore4549]

Thanks for sharing 😊

[@btetschner]

A+ video! LOVE IT! What a unique topic and history!

[@benjamindover4337]

When I was a boy, we could skyjack a commercial airline and still be back home in time to finish our chores. You kids today are just lazy.

[@oldmech619]

A pilot friend of mine once told me he was hijacked. He said he became the most important person on that aircraft and was absolutely needed to operate that lane. The the other flight crew members were optional. He lived

[@jadedillon5201]

You missed the fact that policy changed to never cooperate with hijackers. That was certainly the most important drive to lower the number of hijackings.

[@MegaSpiritualWarrior]

3:21 is the quote of the century

[@ygbgforever]

A trap door on a plane...someone has seen too many episodes of Scooby-Doo 😂

[@zakaryreilly]

Can you do a video of how we got to having big lawns of grass? It's really hard to imagine that it was a thing before the industrial age yet you see old castles surrounded by big green lawns. How and when did it become popular and how were they first maintained?

[@leannwinter1798]

I had no idea there were so many! Crazy! Thanks for sharing, it's certainly weird! People....ugh!

[@newclothes8165]

I thought the golden age was the 1980's. Man during that time that's all I saw. Even made a movie called "the Delta Force" based on a hijacking.

[@redrobin0440]

A video about the living quality in germany and poland around 1800 would be interessting

[@Imtired879]

I’m just relaxing in a hammock, this is a very relaxing video

[@abrooktrout710]

Do a video on history of plane hijackings in the 1970s

[@pamelamays4186]

What a pleasant subject for Mother's Day.💐💐💐💐💐 ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️

[@zillsburyy1]

excellent title

[@BZ_1994]

A September 11 weird history, PLEASE

[@justayoutuber1906]

Make 'Merica gret again. Hijackings, inflation, gas shortages, smog, Vietnam. Love those early 70s.

[@yamas4799]

This is wild

[@nikshmenga]

Hard to believe our Antulio was such a stubborn knucklehead.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

I was very young at the time, but I remember plane hijacking was really trendy. I saw a cartoon in a magazine: a baby, wrapped in a diaper hanging from a stork's beak, pointing at the bird with a *huge* gun, and angrily saying: "To Cuba!!"

[@e.mysttt]

Yes I remember learning about some of these on the podcast Black Box Down 💙 Highly recommend it!

[@_Peremalfait]

Let's not call it the golden age. That suggests something good that's been lost. More like the dark age.

[@derp195]

That’s the joke. It’s meant to be sardonic.

[@simplesam01]

This is really weird to listen to as a kid who grew up through 9/11......

[@tiffprendergast]

Yeah

[@NewMessage]

Ya can't even wander around town, playing Say Hi to Jack anymo... Oh... oh, I see. Nevermind.

[@wanderinghistorian]

I will henceforth refer to plane hijackers as "sky pirates."

[@pamelamays4186]

Suggestion: The evolution of flight attendants. The college I went to, San Diego Mesa College, had a flight attendant program. A lot of its graduates would then go on to work for PSA(Pacific Southwest Airlines).

[@toastnjam7384]

I flew with PSA a lot in the early 70's when I was in the Navy. Fondest memories were the pretty young stewardesses in mini-skirts and boots.

[@maryaltshuller885]

Aviation-related items? I want to hear about Howard Hughes' Blue Goose. How many people did he take up? What were the successes and failures of the Blue Goose? What about the history of the Concorde? How many people actually flew in it?

[@josephine1468]

pt's sketch looks like an alien mark zuckerberg before he slightly changed form and became the owner of facebook

[@tonyliem1487]

Hi, Weird History. Can You guys Make Video about: "What Happen During The Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War." ThankYou, And The Narrator is the best Narrator for me(He must win Oscar 2022).

[@nickkk420]

I like how DB trusted the parachutes they gave him

[@liamcragin]

My favorite part of these videos are the tangentially related photos and stock footage.

[@metaljack866]

Giving Dan Cooper a middle initial was probably a relief for all the Dan Coopers out there , especially since they didn't know what he really looked like or if his name was even real.

[@TCadillacM]

Awesome video Weird history!!!

[@jamesmmcgill]

Dan Cooper send you his regards.

[@imzackson]

I did not

[@jessedavid5218]

I feel unsafe in planes during modern times. It's not the hijacking, but the thousands of feet from planet earth and the speed of the plane that tickle my nerves.

[@texanfournow]

9:06 Who knew Bobby Moynihan was a pilot?!?

[@isaacm5339]

I'm really glad that parachute worked

[@jons.6216]

In the handful of skyjacker movies from the 70s I've seen on TV the villains often used the German order "mach' scnell!" haha!

[@111highgh]

Celebrity Birthdays for May 9th. Hockey Hall of Famer and Detroit Red Wings legend Steve Yzerman was born on May 9th, 1965. Chuck Russell, the director of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, was born on May 9th, 1958.

[@shuga1313]

Golden age of hijacking . So I guess this is the golden age of chaos ? 🤷🤔

[@blameyourself4489]

I'd rather say of irrationality, ignorance, beliefs, stupidity and egoism ... did I forget one?

[@shuga1313]

@@blameyourself4489 I think the list could go on forever . But you're damn sure on point honey !

[@wajidhussain5305]

Hans Gruber ‘you want a miracle, I give you the FBI’ 😆

[@WillyMacShow]

I want one of cowboys and train robberies

[@ozayayoung4002]

Do a video on drugs/substances through out time. People are always finding ways to change their headspace.

[@icreatedanaccountforthis1852]

What an era!

[@capenafuerte]

You described plane hijacking's golden age like it's was a good thing. Poor choice of words.

[@dorothyjosefina]

Me: God I miss the golden age. Friend: What do you mean? Comics? Movies? Video games? Me: Aviation hijackings.

[@Daniel-gb3lm]

Imagine if this still happened constantly

[@twistedyogert]

9:29 Yeah, that was smart.

[@williampalenik7306]

Ya I remember hearing these stories on the news back then.

[@kilomillensimus9379]

This is really interesting. The stock footage use was a bit much, though. Every shot is some picture being rotated while blended with another image. I'd like to just look at stuff.

[@kilomillensimus9379]

Okay actually the wacky cartoon animated effect of bullet holes appearing on a picture of a pilot and co-piliot while real deaths were described is yucky. Sound effect, too.

[@ashleykinder8877]

Damn, those frijoles must've been amazing if a dude hijacked a plane just to taste them again.

[@PeeGeeThirteen]

the 1970s was such a bizarre decade

[@tross8863]

The thumbnail, I watched all that unfold on TV with the rest of America and the world. I remember feeling so sad and afraid for these people on board, especially that one pilot. I was so happy when it was over. It's crazy that it took so extremely long for the airline security to get the fact that, you can't just let people walk on a plane without practically doing a cavity search first..same on them. I've never flown and don't see it ever happening unless it a life flight then, I better be completely out of or it could be a difficult situation 😉

[@wandaborowy9400]

How about a history of the worst plane crashes.

[@mareedonahue8310]

For anyone interested in learning more, read the book "the skies belong to us" - it's so wild

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

I didn't know there was such an age.

[@ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717]

Who in there right mind what even think of things like that. Very Sad.

[@indygamertag829]

Disney actually just confirmed that DB Cooper was actually Loki when he went back in time.

[@claysoggyfries]

Didn’t know there was a “golden age” of skyjacking lmao 😂

[@samanthagruebel696]

I would love a video on the lost flight 19 in the Bermuda Triangle. My grandfather’s brother was one of the men on that flight.

[@msatxgault560]

So sorry to hear about your great uncle

[@lorddeez1385]

What about 'first' in the plane industry? First flight, first mono plane, all that stuff?

[@JakeLikesTech]

Kinda crazy how hijacking a plane in the 60s amounted to just "transporting a plane across state lines." Like not even grand theft aero? or something like that? Just transporting it.

[@lisaa8795]

Considering the first bombed airplane was in 1933, you'd think that would've given the aviation industry enough lead time to figure out how to keep their paying customers and expensively trained labor, oh I dunno, more secure??

[@FeldwebelWolfenstool]

Canada's 1st highjacking took place in North Ontario, 1971,which is odd, because it's considered fly-over country up here...

[@prenacook]

Y’all should do the history of barbershops

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

Why is it during this entire video I was thinking of Kento Bento’s video?