Eventually backing down slightly, he frees the economy class passengers and crew but then demands to be flown to Moscow with the remaining first class passengers as his insurance, proving that his reign of terror isn’t child’s play and he is in fact 100% serious about his intentions. Initially, the Soviets deny Global Airlines Flight 502 clearance at Moscow, as F100’s intercept the Boeing 707 they are satisfied it is a commercial airliner and the tower relent and allow it to land on a runway away from the terminal. Permitting the remaining hostages to leave, Captain O’Hara is now left alone with his disturbed captor who reveals there never was any bomb, and quickly realising that they’re not welcoming him with open arms. The hijacker prepares to fire on the Soviets who’ve surrounded the aircraft. O’Hara tries to intervene and a shot is fired tumbling down the air stairs together in a scuffle, the hijacker is immobilised by the commandos, and wounded but alive. O’Hara looks up to the sky and smiles as he sees a departing aircraft. This wouldn’t be the first time we saw Heston at the controls of an airliner as three years after the release of SKYJACKED we see him save the crippled Columbia Airlines flight in Airport 1975.