Cuban hijackers arrested
NZPA-Reuter Miami Two men, holding explosives in one hand and flicking cigarette lighters in the other, hijacked a United States airliner to Cuba yesterday — the fifth such seizure in nine weeks. The Pan American World Airways Boeing 727, on an internal Florida flight had 55 passengers and six crew on board when it was taken over. It later flew back to Miami. No-one was injured.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (F. 8.1. said that the hijackers, tentatively identified as Angel Martinez and Omar Merida, both Cuban refugees aged about 40, were arrested by Havana police.
The F. 8.1. said that Cuban authorities had told the flight crew that both hijackers were carrying explosive devices, one a hand grenade.
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Press, 4 July 1983, Page 10
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