 One passenger described the apparent ringleader as a black man, about 30, wearing a black mohair suit
which others described as a clerical outfit.The pilot of the hijacked Detroit-Miami flight, Captain William Harold May, then 41 and a 20-year Delta employee, said Wright was the group's leader.The hijackers, allegedly members of the Black Liberation Army, seized the plane as it approached Miami, where they
demanded that FBI agents (dressed only in bathing suits) deliver $1 million ransom to the plane; the FBI complied.