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It was FedEx Flight 705.

The story of that heroic flight crew is told in the book Hijacked: The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705.

The aircraft was a FedEx DC-10.

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The story of that heroic flight crew is told in the book Hijacked: The True Story of the Heroes of Flight 705.

Yep, written by former Memphis Commercial-Appeal aviation and business writer Dave Hirschman, now with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, I believe, and probably making life as interesting for McDonnell-Douglas and the airlines flying out of Lambert International as he did for FedEx and Northwurst in Memphis.

There's a pretty good capsule description of the attempt by Auburn Calloway to take over FedEx Flight 705 and use the airplane as a bomb to take out the Memphis FedEx Operations Center *here*. There's also a pretty good description of what can be done to prevent such problems *here*.

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