On April 7, 1994, Federal Express Flight 705, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 cargo jet carrying electronics equipment across the United States from Memphis, Tennessee, to San Jose, California, was the subject of a hijack attempt by Auburn R. Calloway, a Federal Express employee facing possible dismissal for having lied about his flight hours.

2023年10月9日 · Auburn Calloway is a former FedEx flight engineer and Stanford University alumnus, as well as a former Navy pilot and martial arts master. He was the hijacker of FedEx Flight 705 on April 7, 1994, and is presently serving a life sentence in …

2019年4月5日 · It also led to life in prison for FedEx flight engineer Auburn Calloway, whose aim was to take over the plane and crash it, so his family could cash out on his life insurance policy, The...

2008年7月24日 · Auburn Calloway was sentenced to life in prison without parole. He is currently serving his time in a California prison and protests his conviction via his website. [Note: Page no longer...

Auburn Calloway, the hijacker, had carefully planned for his result. According to Wikipedia, he intended to kill the crew using blunt force hammers to their heads so their injuries would appear consistent with those they would sustain in the explosive airplane crash.

2022年8月4日 · Auburn Calloway was a Stanford graduate who loved his family but couldn’t afford to send his kids to college. He used his experience as a navy pilot, and the location of Memphis to grab a job at FedEx. He was frustrated at the fact his life amounted to only flying airplanes when he could have so much more potential.

1994年4月7日 · Flight Engineer Auburn Calloway knew his career was about to end. His employer, Federal Express, had recently uncovered a series of irregularities and outright falsifications in both his original employment application and in hundreds of hours of flight records. He was ordered to appear at a disciplinary hearing in the second week of April 1994.

2024年11月29日 · The Sinister Intentions of Auburn Calloway Calloway, facing dismissal from FedEx for falsifying his previous flight experience, devised a chilling plan to hijack Flight 705. Armed with hammers and a speargun hidden in a guitar case, he intended to kill the flight crew, crash the aircraft, and make it appear as an accident.

1995年8月12日 · — A former Federal Express pilot was sentenced to life in prison Friday for attacking a FedEx jet crew with a hammer and spear gun at 18,000 feet. Auburn Calloway, 42, was convicted in March of...

2012年1月5日 · Auburn Calloway in the Navy. Despite the calm, innocuous exterior Auburn Calloway had displayed to his fellow FedEx flyers that day, he was in a strange state of mind. His résumé suggested a healthy, well-balanced employee⁠—he was a graduate of Stanford University, a former Navy pilot, and an expert in martial arts.