Flight 741 a thriller novel published in 1986, by Don Pendleton is one of the books in the Mack Bolan series. This book starts out with the cleaning up crew (controlled by terrorist Karl Geiger) bringing guns onto the plane and waiting for the right moment to start the hijacking. When the hijackers finally spring into action, there is mayhem amongst the passengers and crew. The book was released a year after the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 by Lebanese terrorists. The events in the beginning of the novel resemble those that took place during that event.