The late 1960s and early ’70s, before airports tightened security, were known as the “golden age of hijacking.”
Between 1967 and 1972, more than 300 attempts were made to hijack planes. Over 130 of those were in the U.S. – including 28-year-old Martin McNally’s 1972 skyjacking of American Airlines Flight 119 out of St. Louis.
St. Louis on the Air producer Danny Wicentowski first told McNally’s story in 2017 when he was a reporter for the Riverfront Times. His story inspired Eli Kooris and Joshua Shaffer’s first feature documentary film “American Skyjacker,” which premieres in St. Louis on Friday at Ronnie’s Cinema. It will also be released in select theaters in cities across the U.S…