Is Auburn Calloway Still In Jail? Federal Express Flight 705 Hijack Reddit And Twitter Story

Auburn Calloway, who hijacked FedEx Flight 705 on April 7, 1994, is still imprisoned and serving a life sentence in the federal prison in Atwater, California. Calloway had graduated from Stanford University and served as a United States Navy flier, where he became an expert in martial arts.

He served in the military and afterward became a federal Express flight engineer. However, he was emotionally unstable and worried about his financial situation. His initially promising career had yielded a string of disappointments. He could only find work as a flight engineer and had recently divorced.

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He was planning to attend a FedEx hearing when he attempted the hijacking because it had been discovered that he had overstated his flight experience with the US Navy on his resume, which would probably result in his termination.

Intent on killing the flight crew with hammers, he boarded the plane bound for San José, California, loaded with electronic equipment, and headed for Silicon Valley. He was also suspected of using the plane to launch a kamikaze attack on the FedEx headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee.

On April 7, 1994, Auburn R. Calloway attempted to hijack Federal Express Flight 705, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 cargo plane traveling from Memphis, Tennessee, to San Jose, California. The shocking events surrounding this incident have since resurfaced on Twitter and Reddit.

For lying about his flight hours, Calloway, a Federal Express employee, was in danger of losing his job. He arrived at the airport as a deadhead traveler with a guitar case containing a speargun and numerous hammers. He attempted to kill the crew with hammers once the plane was in the air and turn off the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) before takeoff so their injuries would appear consistent with an accident rather than a deliberate act.

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The flight engineer, though he had forgotten to turn on the CVR, turned it back on. As a final option, Calloway planned to employ the speargun. He intended to crash the plane to make himself look like a worker who died in an accident.

He wanted to allow his family to benefit from a $2.5 million life insurance policy that Federal Express had issued. Calloway tried unsuccessfully to murder the crew. Despite suffering severe wounds, the team battled back, subdued Calloway, and successfully landed the aircraft.

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Finally, given permission to land on any runway it could manage, FedEx 705 did so. In addition to making a safe landing, the flight crew’s valiant efforts allowed them to keep Auburn Calloway in check until law enforcement officers boarded the aircraft in Memphis and captured him.

David Sanders, Jim Tucker, and Andy Peterson were never again pilots due to the seriousness of their head wounds. Auburn Calloway was given a life sentence without the possibility of release. He is incarcerated in California and uses his website to contest his conviction.

Calloway struck the airplane’s captain, first officer, and flight engineer in the head less than 30 minutes into the journey after he opened his guitar case and pulled out a claw hammer.

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