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What Really Happened When An Ex-Monk Hijacked A Plane Shutterstock
By Emilia David/Jan. 11, 2021 2:26 pm EDT
Plane hijackers can be strange people. Sometimes they have very legitimate concerns, but there are those whose requests are almost impossible to fulfill.
Take the case of Laurence James Downey, who hijacked Aer Lingus Flight 164 in 1981.
Downey, an Australian who was a former monk expelled for punching a superior, had been on a flight from Dublin to London s Heathrow airport. Five minutes before the flight was set to land, Downey went into the plane s toilet and doused himself in gasoline, explained
The fasten seatbelt sign had already been turned on, so flight attendants asked him to sit down. At that point, they did not know what liquid he drenched himself with, but he soon claimed it as gasoline. Downey held two vials with him, which he said was cyanide.