Seventy-nine years ago, on May 8, 1927, an overloaded airplane
rolled down a runway towards a rendezvous with destiny. It lifted
once, tentatively, then settled, the weight of an unprecedented
fuel load dragging it down. Finally it lifted, to the cheers of
nervous onlookers, and flew off, climbing painfully slowly. The
plane's next landing was to be on the other side of the Atlantic,
claiming the Orteig Prize... but the plane never arrived.
"I don't call it a love story. I call it a manipulation
story and I think her strength is that she will never be
manipulated by anyone again."
Source: Dillwynia Corrections Centre chaplain
Christine Gyllins, on the strange case of Lucy Dudko, an
Australian librarian who in March 1999 brandished a gun during
a helicopter flight over Sydney, and ordered the pilot to land in
the exercise yard at Silverwater Jail so she could break her
boyfriend, John Killick, out of prison.
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