Attempted hijacking

Excerpt from my story in the book, Flying Above the Glass Ceiling:The Twin Otter had cockpit doors that exited to the outside so we didn’t have to go through the passenger cabin. This was an easy out of the airplane as one crew discovered. Hijacking was in full swing and some dude decided to hijack the Twin Otter at Kennedy … where he thought he could go with an airplane with a few hours range and an airspeed that race cars exceed, I don’t know. The crew convinced him they had to close the door between the cabin and the cockpit to taxi, and then just bailed out the front doors leaving the guy sitting in the airplane waiting for the gun-wielding airport police. Anyway, those doors leaked so I spent a good bit of the winter at ANE wearing my ski pants to fly as the cockpit always filled with snow while airborne.