Next year, we may celebrate a new kind of Icarus for a new human era, one whose escape flight succeeds thanks to better technology.

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They even arrested Richard Floyd McCoy for a similar airplane hijacking and escape five months after Cooper's flight, but McCoy was ruled out as a suspect in the Flight 305 hijacking because he didn't match the physical description.

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Ultimate Holding Company's piece has been described as "exploring the literary legacy of this international author, her fascination with flight and early gliding and the story of the Colditz Cock, an escape glider built by British prisoners of war, " by the spokesman.

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