A Life Of Death Battle On Board | Federal Express Flight 705 | Mayday: Air Disaster

Shortly after take-off, he attacked, inflicting grave injuries to the flight engineer and the co-pilot before the pilot started to fight back. A life-or-death battle ensued as the pilots struggled with Calloway. The plane was put into a dive, which stuck Calloway to the ceiling for a while and neutralized him. Want to watch more full episodes on our channel? Watch them here: Season 3 Episode 4 “Fight For Your Life“: April 7, 1994 – The regular crew of the Federal Express DC-10 freighter was getting ready to leave headquarters in Memphis. Along for the ride was another off-duty FedEx employee, Auburn Calloway a flight engineer. Unbeknownst to the pilots, Calloway had a bone to pick and was scheduled for disciplinary hearings the following day. Calloway took his place in the jump seat behind the flight crew, beside him was his only piece of luggage, a guitar case. Shortly after take-off, he removed from his case the weapons he had carefully selected: a knife, a spear gun and two sledgehammers. Calloway had a plan and it involved killing the three men and crashing the plane. He wanted everything to look like an accident so his estranged family could collect the large life insurance policy he had just taken out. Welcome to the OFFICIAL Mayday: Air Disaster YouTube Channel. Mayday: Air Disaster is a dramatic non-fiction series that investigates high-profile air disasters to uncover how and why they happened. Mayday: Air Disaster follows survivors, family members of crash victims and transportation safety investigators as they piece together the evidence of the causes of major accidents. So climb into the cockpit for an experience you won’t soon forget. Subscribe to the OFFICIAL Mayday: Air Disaster channel here: #MaydayAirDisaster #MaydayInvestigation #AirEmergency #MaydayEpisodes #planecrashes #airplanecrashes #aviationaccidents #Fullepisode #airplanedisasterdocumentary #aircrashinvestigation #FedEx #Flight705