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Nov. 11, 1972 - Plane Hijacker Captured in Tokyo. Tatsuji Nakaoka (47) a Japanese national living in Los Angeles is nabbed by police after an eight hour air piracy drama at Tokyo International Airport. Nakaoka had planned the skyjacking for a year but made the mistake of picking JAL short range Boeing 727 to fly him to Cuba via Vancouver and Mexico with 2 million dollars ransom, instead of a DC - 8. In the switch over to the bigger plane police hidden in it pounced on the man and disarmed him of a.38 loaded pistol. The would be hijacker let the passenger leave the Boeing 727, but held the three crewmen prisoners with their hands tied. During the hijacking Nakaoka wore a Halloween mask and yellow gloves, and planned to parachute to earth somewhere along the route to Cuba with the 2 million dollars deposited in metal cases on the front seats of the DC-8
