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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 in the 1970s. Jose Rafael Rios Cruz was arrested in 1975; Miguel Castro was captured in 1976.
August 3, 1961 Continental Air Lines Flight 54, a Boeing 707, is unsuccessfully hijacked to Cuba. President John F. Kennedy orders that the tires be shot out while the plane is on the ground in El Paso. [20] The plane is later destroyed in a suicide bombing the next year. [21] August 9, 1961 Pan Am Flight 501, a DC-8, is hijacked to Cuba. [22]
[2] [4] The proposals were rejected by President John F. Kennedy. [5] [6] [7] Fidel Castro had taken power in Cuba in 1959 and began allowing communists into the new Cuban government, nationalizing U.S. businesses and improving relations with the Soviet Union, arousing the concern of the U.S. military due to the Cold War.
November 24, 1968: Luis Armando Pena Soltren, Jose Rafael Rios Cruz and Miguel Castro coerced the pilot of Pan Am Flight 281 out of New York's John F. Kennedy Airport to divert from a scheduled route to Puerto Rico to Havana, Cuba. [41] [42] Passengers were evacuated from Cuba by a U.S. State Department aircraft. There were no fatalities.
It was officially authorized on November 30, 1961, by U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The name "Operation Mongoose" was agreed to at a White House meeting on November 4, 1961. The operation was run out of JMWAVE, a major secret United States covert operations and intelligence gathering station on the campus of the University of Miami.
In 1964, Pan Am began a helicopter shuttle between New York's John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark airports and Lower Manhattan, operated by New York Airways. [67] Aside from the DC-8, the Boeing 707 and 747, the Pan Am jet fleet included Boeing 720Bs and 727s (the first aircraft to sport Pan Am rather than Pan American – titles [ 68 ] ).
In 1946 National got approval to fly to Havana, Cuba, which coincided with the introduction of the Douglas DC-4. [8] The DC-4 allowed non-stop flights between Miami and New York [16] that started on February 14, 1946. Later that year National relocated its headquarters to Miami International Airport; a maintenance base opened at Miami in 1950 ...
John F. Kennedy International Airport Washington Dulles International Airport. Finnair: Finland. Helsinki Airport. Cuba Seasonal: Havana–José Martí International Airport. Dominican Republic Seasonal: Puerto Plata Gregorio Luperón International Airport. Mexico Seasonal: Puerto Vallarta–Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport ...