David Burke 1987 Airline Suicide Hijacker

1. David Burke 1987 Airline Suicide Hijacker

2. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 - Wikipedia, the free ...

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   Using his unsurrendered USAir credentials, 
   

   1. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 - Wikipedia, the free ...

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      Using his unsurrendered USAir credentials, David Burke, armed with a loaded .44 Magnum revolver that he had borrowed from a co-worker, was able to bypass  ...
      

      ‎Background - ‎David Burke - ‎Consequences - ‎Dramatization
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      A Brief History of Suicide Hijackings - Part II - Investigating the Terror

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      May 13, 2012 - Two years later, David Burke's actions inspired RAND Corporationterrorism expert Brian Jenkins to write a paper called The Terrorist Thread to  .

   , armed with a loaded .44 Magnum revolver that he had borrowed from a co-worker, was able to bypass  ...
   

   ‎Background - ‎David Burke - ‎Consequences - ‎Dramatization
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   A Brief History of Suicide Hijackings - Part II - Investigating the Terror

   www.investigatingtheterror.com/.../A_Brief_History_of_Suicide_Hijacki...‎
   

   
   

   May 13, 2012 - Two years later, David Burke's actions inspired RAND Corporationterrorism expert Brian Jenkins to write a paper called The Terrorist Thread to  .
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   In Part I of this series we looked at the case of Samuel Byck who in 1974 tried to hijack a plane with the intention of crashing it into the White House and killing President Nixon.  That was, of course, not the end of the story of suicide hijackings in America. 

   In 1987 a British born Jamaican man caused a large passenger plane to crash into the side of a mountain in California.  

Two years later, David Burke's actions inspired RAND Corporation terrorism expert Brian Jenkins to write a paper called The Terrorist Thread to Commercial Aviation, in which he commented that:

The nightmare of governments is that suicidal terrorists will hijack a commercial airliner and, by killing or replacing its crew, crash into a city or some vital facility. It has been threatened in at least one case: In 1977, an airliner believed to have been hijacked crashed, killing all on board. And in 1987, a homicidal, suicidal ex-employee boarded a commercial airliner where he shot his former boss and brought about the crash of the airliner, killing all 44 on board. - Jenkins, The Terrorist Threat to Commercial Aviation