Martin McNally

Grab an extortion note, some weapons, a disguise, board a plane, demand the money, bail out.

What could be more simpler?

Mid-January of 1972.

I'm in a Cadillac with my partner.

He's driving.

We're going to another friend who runs a gas station in Detroit.

And I hear on the radio, this is about 10 o'clock in the morning, I hear on the radio, how can we stop these...

skyjackings that are going down here, a lot of them.

What can we do?

So in the discussion, the guy says, well, what we need to do is anybody who buys a ticket, a plane ticket, we give them a half a million dollars and it'll stop all this nonsense.

So I immediately laughed like hell.

And I told my partner, that is, that is so, so funny.

Just grab a note, extortion note, get some weapons, get a disguise, and board a plane, demand the money, and bail out.

What could be more simpler?

What could be more easy?

I was stupid.

I mean, this is an insane thing to do.

There's no question about it.

But right right from there, I began the putting it together.

I didn't sit down with these two guys and tell them, this is what I'm going to do.