Jerry Summers: Chattanooga's Hijacking Experience (1972) Monday, July 19, 2021 - by Jerry Summers Jerry Summers When Southern Airways Flight 49 landed at Chattanooga’s Lovell Field on November 10, 1972, it was one stop on a bizarre hijacking plot by three individuals, Melvin Cale, Louis Moore, and Henry D. Jackson Jr., that had started earlier in Birmingham, Alabama at 7:20 p.m. The Douglas DC-9 originally was scheduled to fly from Memphis, Tennessee to Miami, Florida with intermediate stops in Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama and Orlando. Armed with handguns and hand grenades, the unorganized hijackers required the pilots to fly to multiple sites in the United States and Canada.