Hijack ends at Havana
NZPA Havana A hijacked Eastern Airlines jetliner with 95 people aboard took off yesterday from Havana’s Jose Marti Airport for the United States two hours after the
hijacker surrendered to Cuban authorities. Don Beson, the United States diplomatic mission’s press officer in Havana, said that a crew member of the Airbus, which had been
flying from Miami to New York, had told him that a man with a Spanish accent had entered one of the plane’s washrooms and shouted: “Tell the captain I want to go to Havana and see my family.”
The hijacker had said that he had an incendiary bomb and would set fire to the plane if his instructions were not obeyed. The pilot had then turned the plane south and landed at Havana.
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