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December 31, 1984 An American Airlines DC-10 from Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (STX) bound for New York City (JFK) is hijacked to Havana. The hijacker (Ismail La Beet), a convicted perpetrator of the Fountain Valley massacre , was confirmed to be living at large in Cuba following an indeterminate amount of time spent in a Cuban prison.
December 31, 1984, American Airlines Flight 626, a DC-10, was hijacked during a flight from St. Croix Airport to New York John F. Kennedy International Airport by a prisoner who was under armed escort. Feigning flight sickness, he went into the restroom and came out with a gun.
A hijacker commandeers American Airlines Flight 206, a Boeing 727 flying from Chicago, Illinois, to New York City with 74 people on board, and forces it to fly to Havana, Cuba. [ 67 ] Over Georgia , a woman accompanied by a child hijacks Delta Air Lines Flight 199, a Convair CV-880 with 102 people on board flying from Atlanta , Georgia, to ...
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 ...
August 2, 1970: Pan American World Airways Flight 299 from New York to San Juan was hijacked to Havana with 379 people aboard. This was the first hijacking of a Boeing 747 and the first Boeing 747 to land in Cuba. The captain of the flight was met by Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. [58]
The aircraft was subsequently crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City, killing all 92 people onboard including the five hijackers. American Airlines Flight 320 crashed in the East River on approach to LaGuardia Airport, New York City on February 3, 1959; 65 of the 73 people on board perished. [127]
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. United States of America New York–JFK. Seasonal: Chicago–O'Hare International Airport
A Curtiss C-46 Commando operating for US Airlines, leased from the USAF, a cargo flight with two occupants inbound from Raleigh-Durham International Airport, crashed 4.4 miles north of Idlewild tower in heavy rain and overcast conditions at the intersection of 169 Street and 89th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, New York. Both occupants were killed ...