If he was Cooper he should of known to keep the hijacking between the crew and not involve the passengers as he did the first time. he also uses violence as well a firearm. not the same MO..
About 20 minutes into the flight, Hahneman decided to act. Pulling out his handgun, he informed the pilot, Captain W.L. Hendershott of Miami, and the rest of the crew that he was taking over the plane and wanted $303,000 from the airline. Not long afterward, the pilot came on the intercom and announced, "There is an armed man aboard."
Hahneman held the chief stewardess hostage at the back of the plane.
Stunned passengers quickly found that what was to be a 40-minute hop to Washington would be much more. Wrote Times reporter Amdur later: "From the moment the captain uttered those chilling words . . . I felt a sense of fear I had never known."
Amdur knew he was not alone in his feelings. The couple sitting next to him, John and Mary McDonald of Lansford, sought relief in prayer. Frank Valek, who was unaware of what had happened, got up to go the plane's rear restroom and found the hijacker and the stewardess in front of him. "After I asked him jokingly where the line began," Valek said later, "the man turned slowly around and jammed a gun into my midsection. He said, 'Don't try anything funny. Go back to your seat and sit down.' " After this encounter, Valek went to the restroom in the front of the plane. "I really had to go then," he said.
Robert Palazzo, the mayor of Columbia, N.J., got up to go to the magazine rack. He noticed the hijacker looking at him suspiciously. Hahneman told Palazzo to go back to his seat. "And I said," Palazzo recalled, "I'm not interested in the lavatory, I am just looking." Hahneman reiterated: "I told you once again, go back to your seat." Palazzo, who described himself as a "pugnacious individual," shouted back at Hahneman, "For what?" Hahneman pulled out his .38 and rammed it into Palazzo's stomach. "That's the reason. Go back or I'll blow your brains out." Palazzo retreated.
