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...after one of the most theatrical and spectacularly prolonged episodes in the chronicles of skyjacking. Three men armed with pistols and a hand grenade boarded Flight 49 in Birmingham and took the 30 passengers and four crew members on an odyssey of terror that ended 29 hours later in Havana. Everybody lost something on the flight: the copilot was wounded, the passengers were badly shaken, Southern Airways may be financially crippled by the ransom it paid, the FBI has been damned for a trigger-happy performance and the hijackers are said to be condemned to spend the rest of their...
...landed in Chattanooga, where Southern sent aboard an estimated $2,000,000 in aluminum boxes, as well as the bulletproof vests the hijackers had requested. They had promised to release the passengers there, but the large crowds gathered at the airport rattled them, and they ordered the plane to Havana...
...route, the trio maniacally distributed money up and down the aisle while reassuring the passengers that they had nothing against them. At José Martí terminal in Havana one of the gunmen disembarked to dicker with Cuban officials; he returned two hours later grousing: "These people here treat you worse than George Wallace or Lester Maddox." The plane headed back to the U.S. and eventually landed at McCoy A.F.B. in Orlando. There the odyssey nearly ended in disaster. After the hijackers demanded to talk to President Nixon, the word came down from Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray that...
When the plane landed in Havana, Cuban authorities took the four men into custody. They rarely return American hijackers, but when the U.S. State Department asked for their extradition, the Cubans did not say no. Instead, they requested more details on the charges against the men, suggesting that even Cuba may be no refuge for revolutionaries of the likes of Tuller & Sons...
...Algeria and Libya, which have made a practice of admitting hijackers. But even some of these nations have recently shown that they are getting tired of it. Twice Algeria has returned kidnapers' ransom money to U.S. airlines, and Cuba now jails many of the fugitives who fly to Havana on commandeered airliners. "If you hijack a plane to Cuba these days," says a British airline official, "you have an excellent chance of spending the rest of your life in prison...