Originally Posted by
thegypsy
One of the Britannia ex B707 F/Engs was Dave Brown who ran the ground school on the B737 and B757/767.
One of Dave Brown's BM B707 stories was how his lunch was spoiled one day when a hijacker (one of six on board) burst into the flight deck toting a gun. The bad guys forced the a/c to land in Damascus but eventually surrendered to the Syrian authorities and the incident was resolved with no loss of life.
Dave said the most worrying aspect was when the hijackers checked passports and separated Jewish passengers from the others. One of the bad guys looked at Dave's passport and commented that David was a Jewish name. Dave said he was prepared if necessary to demonstrate anatomically by removal of clothing that this was not the case.