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October 25 A man born in Puerto Rico successfully hijacks an American Airlines Boeing 747 from New York to Cuba; the plane was bound for San Juan. [39] October 29 A man, his two sons, and a third youth hijack an Eastern Air Lines jet from Houston to Havana. They kill a ticket agent during seizure of plane. [39]
Pan Am Flight 281 was a regularly scheduled Pan American World Airways flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was hijacked on November 24, 1968, by four men from JFK International Airport, New York City to Havana, Cuba. [2] [3] U.S. jet fighter aircraft followed the plane until it reached Cuban airspace. [4] Two of the hijackers were apprehended ...
June 12, 1972: American Airlines Flight 96, a new McDonnell Douglas DC-10 en route from Los Angeles to New York, with stops in Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and Buffalo Niagara International Airport, had its rear cargo door open in flight, causing an explosive decompression over Windsor, Ontario. Tail controls were damaged, but it ...
American Airlines has cut some international flights from major US airports next year and delayed others, blaming Boeing for the hold up.. A number of new long-haul routes can’t go ahead yet ...
American Airlines nationwide ground stop on Christmas Eve is lifted. ... Cuba tourism struggles as blackouts and shortages deter visitors. ... Alaska Airlines plans new nonstop flights to Japan ...
American Airlines Flight 1, a Boeing 707-123B, crashes into Jamaica Bay shortly after taking off from Idlewild Airport in New York City, killing all 95 people on board; it is the sixth fatal accident involving a Boeing 707 and the deadliest 707 accident thus far.
In March 2015, Sun Country Airlines started operating regularly scheduled charter flights from New York during the Cuban Thaw. [10] Regularly scheduled commercial service to and from the United States began again in the fall of 2016, with such airlines as American, Delta, JetBlue and, after January 2017, Alaska, flying to Havana. [11]
AAA predicted that more than 119 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home between Dec. 21 and New Year's Day, which would top the previous holiday-season high set in 2019.