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Yes, kidnapping was a capital crime, too. Hijacking escapes my memory; I don’t remember really hearing of it until 9/11.
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It used to be a thing, mostly hijackings to Cuba, often for ransom payments. Between 1961 and 1972 there were 159 hijackings in American airspace.
I am the suspicious type; so, I suspect this was for the purpose of getting remote-control gear installed in commercial jets.
This explains the way they could have been piloted 911. The doofuses that trained on crop dusters in Florida had no possibility of pulling off any of the maneuvers carried out that day.
The four hijacked flights were all either Boeing 767-200ER or Boeing 757-200, two models introduced within a year of each other in the early 1980s.
You must be young. Planes were being hijacked to Cuba all the time in the 1960s.
The info is kind of convoluted, but here’s what I found on Wikipedia and on the Cornell Law School’s website.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/46502
Imagine what it would be like today if these penalties were actually imposed for hijacking / “aircraft piracy”.
