![]() ![]() January 23 – The United States suspects that SA-3 Goa surface-to-air missiles have become operational in North Vietnam. ![]() Facing potential death penalty charges for air piracy, La Point will be sentenced to 40 years in prison, but will serve less than eight and be released from a halfway house in 1979. The plane, with two pilots and a flight attendant on board, lands safely at Denver's Stapleton International Airport at 2:55 pm MST. The parachutes he had been given were high-visibility ones secretly equipped with emergency locater devices, and he sprains his ankle on landing, making it impossible for him to move he is apprehended a few hours later, with minor injuries and very cold. Without a coat and in cowboy boots, La Point bales out via the plane's lower aft door over the Eastern Plains in northeastern Colorado in mid-afternoon. When his demands are met, La Point releases 51 Reno, Nevada-bound passengers and two flight attendants, after which the DC-9 takes off and flies eastward toward Denver, Colorado, followed by two United States Air Force F-111 fighters. After boarding at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, 23-year-old Richard Charles La Point claims he has a bomb while the plane is on the taxiway and demands US$50,000 in cash, two parachutes, and a helmet. Cooper", Hughes Airwest Flight 800 becomes the target of a copycat hijacker.
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