A retired soldier in need of cash decides to skyjack an American airliner.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
11pp
Genre:
Action, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
13+
Synopsis/Details
It's 1971. Kelly, a newly retired legionnaire travels to the USA on a whim. Though in receipt of a small French military pension, he has no other means of income and his visitors visa is soon to expire. Falling in love with a woman from Seattle, adds to his woes. So, he has an idea - he'll undertake, what is to him, a simple money making crime. He'll skyjack an airliner and demand a ransom fee. It can't be that hard. Fifty years later, his crime — given the operational name, NORJAK, by the FBI — remains the only unsolved skyjacking in the USA.
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Submitted: 2021-Mar-01
Last Updated: 2025-Feb-22
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The Writer: James Shearer

Hello all Thank you for visiting my profile. I am a former Scotland Yard Specialist Operations detective. During my career (and in addition to routine murder squads), I served on both the Central Drug Squad and the Regional Crime Squad. Whilst serving on the former, I was part of a team responsible for seizing the (then) largest illicit cocaine hydrochloride consignment to be landed in the UK — a tonne of coke tracked from Venezuela to London utilising a US DEA satellite. I was also the lead detective on a confidential enquiry focusing on the smuggling of cocaine by certain characters from within the Formula One motor racing fraternity. When on the latter squad, one notable success was the… Go to bio
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