January 23, 1930 - Samuel Byck
His 1974 plot to commandeer a commercial aircraft and crash it into the White House anticipated, in stark outline, the methods used in the September 11 attacks more than two decades later. Byck killed a police officer and a co-pilot before being shot by authorities, never getting the plane off the ground. The scheme drew little public attention at the time, but its logic — civilian aviation as a weapon against a seat of government — later gave it a grim retrospective significance.
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Samuel Joseph Byck (January 30, 1930 – February 22, 1974) was an American hijacker and attempted assassin. On February 22, 1974, he attempted to hijack a plane flying out of Baltimore/Washington International Airport, intending to crash into the White House in the hopes of killing U.S. President Richard Nixon. Byck killed an airport policeman and the plane's copilot and wounded the pilot, but Byck was shot and wounded by another policeman before committing suicide.
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