Airliner forced to fly to Cuba
NZPA-Reuter Miami An Air Florida plane forced to fly to Cuba yesterday by a lone hijacker returned safely to Florida later in the day. The airline's chairman, Eli Timoner, told reporters the hijacker, described by passengers as a young Latin male, had threatened the crew with a bottle he claimed contained inflamm- , able liquid during a flight from Miami to Key West. “He wanted to go to Havana and we accommodated him,” Mr Timoner said. He said that after the Air
Florida Boeing 737 landed at Havana Airport, the hijacker released the 71 passengers and five crew and surrendered to authorities. The airliner stayed on the ground in Havana for two and a half hours while passengers and crew were served refreshments in the airport terminal. It then returned to Florida. • It was the first hijacking of a United States airliner to Cuba since an Eastern Airlines L-1011 was forced to Havana in July last year by two men carrying petrol bombs.
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Press, 4 February 1982, Page 6
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