Hijack ordeal over
NZPA-Reuter San Juan
An American Airlines Boeing 727, which was hijacked to Cuba by a man claiming to have a bomb strapped to his body, landed safely in San Juan, Puerto Rico, yesterday after a three-hour forced stop-over in Havana.
The plane was hijacked soon after taking off from New York with 112 people on board bound for the Virgin Islands. The passengers looked tired as they emerged from the plane into the terminal, where Federal Bureau of Investigation agents debriefed them before escorting them to chartered planes to complete their trip to St Thomas. The hijacker, tentatively identified as Knight Stallion, was arrested by the Cuban authorities.
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Press, 24 September 1983, Page 10
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