The Skies Belong to Us Book Reviews

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. A MUST READ to any current or former TSA employee. An excellent read!!!! It was very interesting to read how the US airline industry at that time was stead fast against the US government's proposal of using metal detectors prior to boarding because they were afraid of losing passengers; they believed it was more cost effective to have the planes diverted to Havana(Havana at that time was most popular) then have it sent back to the US----wow!!! And because of this you had idiots from ALL walks of life hijacking planes and the weapons they used...I fell out laughing when an idiot used BUG SPRAY to hijack a plane---I'm not kidding!! But it’s facinating how the US government was stagnent to airport security in the early seventies but Nixon had Vietnam and Watergate on his mind.

A wonderful retelling of recent yet forgotten history. As a young boy in the early 70's, after reading this book I can add "flying Eastern Airlines to see grandma in Florida" to my list of survived childhood risks, right up there with leaded gasoline, lap-only seat belts, and second-hand smoke. The remarkable violence (Vietnam, assassinations) yet innocence (pre- Internet, pre-9/11) of the late 60's and 1970's is refreshingly portrayed through the hijackers (mis)adventures. The way in which the author intersperses his primary subject with historical context is captivating. Highly recommended!

An eye opening novel!. The book uncovered a whole era that has gone under the radar to myself, a 90s generation child who never knew the days when hijacking was such common practice and there was no x-ray machines. It's an excellent read and I could hardy put it down! Well worth the purchase!

The Skies Belong to us. As a young stewardess for Western Airlines in the late 60's and 70's living and flying out of San Francisco, I can remember the era written about in this book. Many of the crew members portrayed in the book are people I was familiar with. It was definitely a walk down memory lane to read the descriptions of the time, the climate and the feel of that era. I got a big chuckle reading about the stewardesses of the hijacked plane placating the terrorized passengers by breaking out the champaign. We served the bubble beverage on every flight and used it often as a way of calming unhappy passengers, of course we would serve it to sooth an anxious load of hijacked people. Serving champaign was instinctive to us. What is more interesting to me is that I lived through all that time and was really only vaguely aware of the hijacking or the intrigue involved in the incident.

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