The CVR, however, was switched back on by the flight engineer, believing that he had neglected to turn it on. He tried to switch off the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder (CVR) before takeoff and, once airborne, kill the crew with hammers so their injuries would appear consistent with an accident rather than a hijacking.
He boarded the scheduled flight as a deadhead passenger carrying a guitar case concealing several hammers and a speargun. Calloway, a Federal Express employee facing possible dismissal for lying about his flight hours at a hearing scheduled for the following day. On April 7, 1994, Federal Express Flight 705, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 cargo jet carrying electronics equipment across the United States from Memphis, Tennessee, to San Jose, California, was the subject of a hijack attempt by Auburn R.
N306FE, the aircraft involved, taxiing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in June 1986Īttempted suicide hijacking for insurance fraud, subsequent emergency landing
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