He didn't know why he did it he just did it!
On this day, Oct. 27, 1939, amateur pilot Earnest P. “Larry” Pletch shot his flight instructor Carl Bivens in the back of the head in what is believed to be the world’s first fatal hijacking.
Earnest P. “Larry” Pletch
Earnest P. “Larry” Pletch
Pletch, 29, had killed Bivens somewhere over Missouri, landed on farm and hid the body.
He then took to the air the next day to crash the plane, but couldn’t got through with the suicide. He landed the yellow two-seater monoplane in a pasture, and was greeted by a farm children. His overalls were covered in blood. Pletch told them he was hungry and the boys led him to a cafe.
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