I was surprised that this story got so little press when it happened (oh, for the days prior to 9/11). • at your discretion and uh, the localizer is on for runway niner. Express 705, I've been wounded, we've JT: Look, just keep talking to me, okay?

Singers are sweating so pass them a wipe Alongside Memphis International Airport in Tennessee there lies a sprawling complex filled with hundreds of miles of conveyor belts, thousands of employees, and millions of parcels.

Center: Express 705, flighting of zero niner zero and the airport is at 43 miles twelve o’clock. (UNIN loud voice from rear of plane)

Officer Jim Tucker and Flight Engineer Andy Peterson boarded the aircraft,

that the throttle controls, located to his right, were pressed forward U can’t touch this

Great article! JT to Center: Yeah, we need an ambulance and uh, we need, uh, armed kill ya. (struggling in background) Dr. Rumack: “There’s been a little problem in the cockpit.” Flight engineer Peterson’s skull had multiple fractures and his temporal artery had to be repaired. The trio found their coworker, Auburn Calloway, already sitting in the plane, carrying a guitar case. Talk to touch.

JT: Lights if you want 'em, I mean clocks if you want 'em, lights are Co-pilot Tucker suffered severe skull fractures, including a hole larger than a golf ball. bludgeon to death the crew of Flight 705, then crash the DC-10 into Tower to DS: Roger, flight 705 heavy, at pilot's discretion maintain,

Just kidding, take your time Alan.

procedures. AW: bank angle, bank angle JT: Flaps up, what a goatrope, what a goatrope! (UNIN from rear) (Sounds of hammer blows striking pilots.) This was considered a breach of etiquette, but Peterson opted not to raise a fuss. That being said, judging from your comment, in my subjective assessment, you are terrible at everything. The skirmish in the rear tumbled over to the left side of the aircraft. (uh-uh uh-uh uh-uh-uh) DS: 705, yes. Tower to DS: Express 705 heavy is cleared visual approach runway niner, To burn the charts Tucker abruptly threw the

My paycheck was to be on the return trip from this plane. (groans from JT in rear)

(background altercation) JT: That's what I heard, 27.4 From the Beatles’ “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.” Well played! The flight crew now had the advantage of numbers, but Calloway had the advantages of weapons, martial arts expertise, and an unbruised brain. He placed his will and some other important documents into a neat stack on the bed in his apartment, and he replaced the acoustic instrument in his guitar case with several blunt ones. from the cockpit. As emergency vehicles converged on the parked plane, Sanders emerged from the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit and opened the emergency escape chute. If we reverse the roles here (angry white guy who believes the blacks in his life are all racist against him) then we would have had a major news story which would’ve fit the media narrative of “racist white attacks black co-workers”. and in hundreds of hours of flight records. JT: Climb power. His résumé suggested a healthy, well-balanced employee⁠—he was a graduate of Stanford University, a … UV: STOP! Co-pilot Jim Tucker, unable to get out of his seat, repeatedly urged “Get him!” to his more mobile crew mates. When he boarded the plane he switched off the fuse for the cockpit voice recorder in the hopes that it would prevent any scuffle from being recorded.

Jim Tucker engaged the autopilot, unbuckled his seatbelt, and struggled from his seat despite nearly complete paralysis in his right limbs. Tower to DS: Affirmative. JT: I was starting to wonder about it. Tower to DS: Express 705 heavy, you're about 25 miles from the airport, know, stuff over here, you know, where it's flat and you cross over

Highly recommend it, the brutality of the attack will make your hair stand on end. An FBI search of Auburn Calloway’s apartment turned up a suspiciously fresh Last Will and Testament lying on his bed⁠—a dead giveaway. Tower: Express 705 heavy, can you proceed, direct to Memphis. By using a hammer as a weapon, autopsies on the remains would only show blunt-force trauma, which would be typical in an airplane collision.