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Look Back: Flight 119 hijacking, 1972

Date: 6/25/2011

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Barbara Oswald of Richmond Heights, who had been a helicopter air-traffic controller in the Army before she fell in love with Garret B. Trapnell, another air pirate who had become friends with Martin J. McNally in the federal prison in Marion, Ill. Oswald and Trapnell arranged an escape scheme. On May 14, 1978, Oswald hired St. Louis helicopter pilot Allen Barklage to fly her to Cape Girardeau, Mo., to look at some land. Near Chester, Ill., she pulled a pistol and told Barklage, "We're going to Marion." Trapnell, McNally and a third inmate had escaped into a yard and were waiting for the chopper to pluck them to freedom, but Barklage grabbed Oswald's gun and killed her as she was reaching for a second weapon. Guards captured the three would-be escapees. (Post-Dispatch)

Caption: Barbara Oswald of Richmond Heights, who had been a helicopter air-traffic controller in the Army before she fell in love with Garret B. Trapnell, another air pirate who had become friends with Martin J. McNally in the federal prison in Marion, Ill. Oswald and Trapnell arranged an escape scheme. On May 14, 1978, Oswald hired St. Louis helicopter pilot Allen Barklage to fly her to Cape Girardeau, Mo., to look at some land. Near Chester, Ill., she pulled a pistol and told Barklage, "We're going to Marion." Trapnell, McNally and a third inmate had escaped into a yard and were waiting for the chopper to pluck them to freedom, but Barklage grabbed Oswald's gun and killed her as she was reaching for a second weapon. Guards captured the three would-be escapees. (Post-Dispatch) Album ID: 1273850 Photo ID: 36468252

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