{"id":25135762,"date":"2026-09-27T21:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/?p=25135762"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:17:27","slug":"eastern-air-lines-flight-1320-hijacking-1970-hartley-wilbur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/eastern-air-lines-flight-1320-hijacking-1970-hartley-wilbur\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Shuttle Flight 1320: The 1970 Hijacking That Brought Screening to US Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>On the evening of 17 March 1970, Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320 left Newark for Boston with 68 passengers and five crew. The Shuttle worked like a bus: no reservations, no security check, and you paid your fare on board once the aircraft was in the air. That is how a 27-year-old man named John Divivo walked onto a DC-9 carrying a .38 revolver.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>By the time the aircraft landed at Logan, the first officer was dying, the captain had been shot in both arms, and the United States had its first hijacking in which someone other than the hijacker was killed. Within weeks, American airports began screening passengers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A post from @theaviationcircle retells the story well. A few details are off, and one moment it leaves out, the first officer turning the gun on the hijacker, is the heart of it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"margin:28px auto;max-width:400px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dc3jC8ZlzPs\/embed\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" style=\"border:0;max-width:100%\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:6px\">The post that prompted this article.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-left:4px solid #1a1a1a;padding:18px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px\"><li><strong>Date:<\/strong> 17 March 1970, departed Newark around 7:30 p.m.<\/li><li><strong>Flight:<\/strong> Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320, Newark to Boston Logan<\/li><li><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31, N8925E<\/li><li><strong>On board:<\/strong> 68 passengers and 5 crew<\/li><li><strong>Captain:<\/strong> Robert Wilbur Jr., 35, a former US Air Force pilot, captain for six months<\/li><li><strong>First officer:<\/strong> James Hartley, 30, killed<\/li><li><strong>Hijacker:<\/strong> John Divivo, 27; died by suicide in jail on 31 October 1970 while awaiting trial<\/li><li><strong>Consequence:<\/strong> Passenger screening began at US airports within weeks; universal screening followed in January 1973<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:28px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/eastern-air-lines-dc-9-31.jpg\" alt=\"An Eastern Air Lines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 on a runway\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">An Eastern Air Lines DC-9-31, the same type as Shuttle Flight 1320. Photo: JetPix, Wikimedia Commons (GFDL 1.2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">&ldquo;I Want to See the Captain&rdquo;<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>About twenty minutes after takeoff, as the stewardesses worked the aisle collecting fares, Divivo came up short of money. When stewardess Sandy Saltzer pointed it out, he showed her the revolver.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #8a1c1c;padding:22px 26px;margin:30px 0\"><p style=\"font-size:19px;line-height:1.6;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 12px\">&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t get excited. I want to see the captain.&rdquo;<\/p><p style=\"margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>John Divivo<\/strong>, to stewardess Sandy Saltzer, according to the Boston Globe&rsquo;s reconstruction<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In the cockpit he told Captain Robert Wilbur Jr. to fly east, out over the Atlantic, and to tell him when they were two or three minutes from running out of fuel. Hijackings were almost routine in those years, and nearly all of them ended in Havana. This one had no destination. Divivo wanted the aircraft to go into the sea.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Shooting<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Wilbur kept talking, and the aircraft eventually turned back toward Boston. Soon afterwards Divivo opened fire. First Officer James Hartley was hit first; the bullet entered his upper back and tore his aorta. Wilbur was shot in both arms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Hartley should not have been able to move. He pulled himself up anyway, lunged at Divivo, wrenched the revolver out of his hand and shot him before collapsing. Accounts differ on whether he fired two shots or three. Wounded and bleeding, Wilbur flew the DC-9 on toward Logan with one arm on the throttles and the other on the controls, and put the gun down on the console.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Near the runway, Divivo came round and moved again. Wilbur picked up the revolver in his bloodied right hand and struck him twice on the head with the flat of it. Then he landed the aircraft.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:22px 26px;margin:30px 0\"><p style=\"font-size:19px;line-height:1.6;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 12px\">&ldquo;You better get the police at the airport. The copilot is shot.&rdquo;<\/p><p style=\"margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Captain Robert Wilbur Jr.<\/strong>, radio call on the approach to Logan<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>He said nothing about his own wounds. The DC-9 touched down safely and State Police boarded immediately. James Hartley was pronounced dead at Massachusetts General Hospital at 8:35 p.m. All 68 passengers and the other four crew members survived.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:28px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/eastern-air-lines-dc-9-31-1984.jpg\" alt=\"An Eastern Air Lines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 taxiing\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">An Eastern Air Lines DC-9-31 photographed in 1984. The Air-Shuttle flew DC-9s on the Boston, New York and Washington corridor. Photo: Jon Proctor, Wikimedia Commons (GFDL 1.2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:28px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QIsu2ylgwf0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Correcting the Record<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Instagram version gets the essentials right, and its passenger count, crew names and ages match the record. Three details need tightening. Hartley was not hit in the chest; the bullet entered his upper back. The post has him disarming Divivo, but leaves out that he then shot the hijacker, which is why Divivo was down for most of the rest of the flight. And the post says Divivo shoved the control column forward to crash the aircraft himself; the fuller reconstruction published by the Boston Globe in 2020 describes him reviving near the runway and Wilbur beating him back with the gun, and we have not found a primary account of a struggle for the controls.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What Happened Next<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Divivo survived his wounds and was charged with murder. On 31 October 1970, before his trial, guards at Boston&rsquo;s Charles Street Jail found him hanged in his cell. Investigators had found occult books and a home-made tombstone in his luggage; as a teenager he had survived shooting himself in the head.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Wilbur needed several operations and spent 28 days in hospital, but recovered full use of his arms. Transportation Secretary John Volpe visited him in hospital with an award. He flew for Eastern for another two decades and later for Saudi Arabian Airlines until he retired at 60.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Hijacking That Brought Screening<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Two days after the flight, on 19 March 1970, Volpe opened hearings on airline security. Within weeks, US airports began the first screening of passengers, and in September 1970 President Nixon announced a wider anti-hijacking programme that included sky marshals. It still took until January 1973 for the Federal Aviation Administration to require every passenger and every carry-on bag to be screened. The effect was dramatic: according to the Boston Globe, 124 hijacking incidents in the United States between 1968 and 1972 fell to one in 1973.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:28px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iHS907JeCpU\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Every walk through a metal detector at a US airport traces back, in part, to a DC-9 over New England on St Patrick&rsquo;s Day 1970, and to a first officer who kept fighting with a torn aorta.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What happened on Eastern Air Lines Flight 1320?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">On 17 March 1970, Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320 from Newark to Boston was hijacked by John Divivo, 27, armed with a .38 revolver. He ordered the DC-9 flown out over the Atlantic until it ran out of fuel, then shot both pilots. First Officer James Hartley disarmed and shot him before collapsing, and Captain Robert Wilbur Jr., wounded in both arms, landed safely at Boston Logan.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who was James Hartley?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">James Hartley, 30, was the first officer of Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320. Although mortally wounded, he wrestled the revolver from the hijacker and shot him. He was pronounced dead at Massachusetts General Hospital shortly after the landing, the first person other than a hijacker to be killed in a US hijacking.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many people survived Eastern Flight 1320?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Seventy-two of the 73 people on board Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320 survived: all 68 passengers and four of the five crew. First Officer James Hartley died of his wounds. The hijacker, John Divivo, was wounded but survived the flight.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What happened to the Flight 1320 hijacker?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">John Divivo was arrested at Logan and charged with murder. On 31 October 1970, before his trial, he was found hanged in his cell at the Charles Street Jail in Boston.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why did the hijacker want to crash the plane?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">John Divivo did not demand to go to Cuba like most hijackers of the era. He ordered Captain Wilbur to fly east over the Atlantic and to tell him when the DC-9 was two or three minutes from running out of fuel, apparently intending the aircraft to go into the sea. Investigators found occult material and a home-made tombstone in his luggage.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How did Flight 1320 change airport security?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Two days after the hijacking, Transportation Secretary John Volpe opened hearings on airline security, and the first US airport passenger screenings began within weeks. Screening of every passenger and carry-on bag became mandatory in January 1973, after which US hijackings fell sharply.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What happened on Eastern Air Lines Flight 1320?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"On 17 March 1970, Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320 from Newark to Boston was hijacked by John Divivo, 27, armed with a .38 revolver. 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