 The Flight 841 hijacking was a copycat of a similar incident two months earlier, involving the hijacking of Western Airlines Flight 701 from Los Angeles to Seattle on June 3, 1972 by Willie Roger Holder, a black Vietnam veteran, and Catherine Marie Kerkow, his white girlfriend.The hijackers claimed they had a bomb in an attache case and demanded $500,000.After allowing all 97 passengers to get off in San Francisco, they flew to Algeria where they were granted political asylum.