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Look Back: Flight 119 hijacking, 1972

Date: 6/25/2011

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Martin J. McNally, alias Robert Wilson, 28. An unemployed service-station attendant, he once told a friend it would be fun to hijack an airliner. McNally had dropped out of high school and joined the Navy, where he provided his fingerprints as a matter of routine. Investigators traced prints from crime evidence to McNally and arrested him five days after he boarded Flight 119. He had $13 in his pocket when officers stopped him while he was walking on a street near his family's home in Wyandotte, a suburb of Detroit. He was charged with two counts of air piracy, one for each jet commandeered. To get home from Peru, Ind., he had called a friend in Detroit, who drove down and picked him up.

Caption: Martin J. McNally, alias Robert Wilson, 28. An unemployed service-station attendant, he once told a friend it would be fun to hijack an airliner. McNally had dropped out of high school and joined the Navy, where he provided his fingerprints as a matter of routine. Investigators traced prints from crime evidence to McNally and arrested him five days after he boarded Flight 119. He had $13 in his pocket when officers stopped him while he was walking on a street near his family's home in Wyandotte, a suburb of Detroit. He was charged with two counts of air piracy, one for each jet commandeered. To get home from Peru, Ind., he had called a friend in Detroit, who drove down and picked him up. Album ID: 1273850 Photo ID: 36468247

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