Question: How did the bad guy have a gun on the flight? He pulls a gun in the airfield chase scene so he had to have it on the plane as he jumped off it.
raywest
30th Jul 2019
30th Jul 2019
Question: How did the bad guy have a gun on the flight? He pulls a gun in the airfield chase scene so he had to have it on the plane as he jumped off it.
Answer: Airport security in the late 1960's was not nearly as thorough as it is in present day. Metal detectors didn't become commonplace at airports until the early 1970's.
BaconIsMyBFF
It was the D.B. Cooper hijacking of a Boeing 727 commercial jet in 1971 that radically changed how airport security was handled. Before that, there was virtually little to no pre-boarding security checks.
raywest ★
In the 60s, my dad would take my brother and me to the new Oakland Airport to watch planes. There was nothing to stop us from walking through the entire terminal. The original terminal was a small building with a 3-foot tall chain-link fence separating spectators from the boarding Constellations, Electras and DC-6 planes 80 ft. away.