ACE LEO Module 1| 108 questions| with complete solutions

1st Highjacking Civil Aviation correct answer: Feb 31 1931 Peru Revolutionaries propaganda 10 day standoff 1st Bombing involving civil aviation correct answer: May 1949 time bomb Philippine Air killed businessman by wife and lover 1st Major Act of Criminal Violence against US aircraft correct answer: Nov 1, UAL 629 DC-6B 39PAX killed by bomb by Jack Gilbert Graham placed bomb on mother Daisie E. King Briefcase First Persons in the U.S. to be Sentenced to Prison for Hijacking a Commercial Aircraft correct answer: August 3, 1961 Leon and Cody Bearden B707 from PHX - ELP wanted to go to Cuba gear and tires shot no injuries Suicide by dynamite correct answer: May 1962 Continental Air Flight 11 1st US blown up PAX Jet. 45 PAX from ORD - LAX Life insurance money for fam. BTWN correct answer: 159 Highjacking US Airspace 130 btwn 1968/1972 more than 1 in a day sometimes. Reason Cuba/civil right/terrorism/vendettas Court Martialed Marine Hijacks Airplane from Los Angeles to Rome correct answer: Oct 28, 1969 Raffaele Minichiello, USMC stole $200 (watches) martialed. Bought M1 250 rounds boarded TWA Flight 85 B707 from LAX to SFO flirt his luggage in. Offloaded PAX at DEN flew to JFK, Maine, Ireland, Rome. 19 hour Highjacking 7000 miles. 18 month jail First Hijacking of a U.S. Aircraft Outside the Western Hemisphere correct answer: 1969 Rome Italy to Ben Gurion Tel Aviv Israel. 2 Palestinian Terrorist's diverted TWA Flight 850 to Damascus Syria First woman highjacking blew up nose no injuries Arrested later EI AI Flight from Amsterdam to JFK. Later let go exchange for hostages. Dawson's Field correct answer: Sep 1970 4 aircraft for JFK and 1 for London were highjacked by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). 3 planes landed Dawson Field Zarka Jordan emptied and exploded. 310 hostages 56 were kept Sep 11 exchange for one highjacker. one highjacker shot killed. D.B. Cooper Hijacking correct answer: 1971 D.B. Cooper Claimed had a Bomb Flight from PDX landed SEA collected 200K freed PAX parachuted off. Hijacking of Southern Airways Flight 49 correct answer: October 1972 Southern Air Flight 49 Louis Moore vs City of Detroit. Was joined by Henry Jackson and arrested for sexual assault. DC9 Flight 49 Arrested in Cuba Lod Airport Massacre correct answer: May 30, 1972 Tel Aviv Israel Japanese Red Army recruited by PFLP. 26 people killed 80 injured. Assault rifles, grenades.