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THIRD PLANE FORCED TO CUBA THIS WEEK
DC-10 out of Miami hijacked
MIAMI (AP) - A National Airlines speaking, as were the seven in Wed- airlines in 1961-73 before improved AIRLINES IN the 1970s also installed
DC-10 bound from Miami to Puerto nesday's hijacking. cooperation from Cuba and new metal-detection devices and security
Rico with 223 people aboard was OFFICIALS SAID it appeared the security devices were developed. guards to screen passengers.
hijacked last night and diverted to hijackers in the first two incidents were "Any airline would be concerned," But air pirates are learning to cir-
Cuba, the third jetliner hijacked to Cuban refugees who had arrived in this John Fasolino, an Air Florida vice cumvent the security, using devices the
Cuba this week, Federal Aviation Ad- country on the "Freedom Flotilla." president, said yesterday at a meeting metal detectors don't detect.
ministration officials said. No one was injured in the two earlier of federal agents and airline officials The hijacker who took over the first
National flight 872 was comman- hijackings and the hijackers were discussing ways of foiling hijackers Air Florida plane Sunday threatened to
deered at about 7:40 p.m. EDT after reported detained in Cuba. The slipping past metal detectors and other detonate a "bomb," which turned out to
leaving Miami International Airport at- passengers, crew, and planes were security checkpoints. be a bar of soap in a box. The seven
6:38, FAA spokesman Jack Barker said safely returned to the United States. Fasolino's stewardess daughter, Cuban nationals who commandeered
in Atlanta. National Airlines is now owned by Nanette, was- among the 74 people the plane Wednesday carried gasoline
"IT APPEARS there were a total of Pan American World Airways. aboard the jetliner hijacked to aboard in a plastic or glass container
five (hijackers) at this point," he said, THERE WERE 87 hijackings on U.S. Cuba from Key West on Wednesday. and threatened to burn the plane.
adding there was no word on how the
hijackers took control of the plane.
Barker said the hijackers were
Spanish-speaking males.
The National DC-10 jet had 211
passengers and 12 crew members,
Barker said.
The jet landed at Havana's Jose Mar-
ti Airport at 9 p.m. EDT, Barker said,
adding that there were no reports of
any injuries. There was no immediate
word on plans for returning the jet to
the United States, but in past incidents
Cuban authorities have allowed the
hijacked planes to return to Miami
within a few hours.
FAA SPOKESMAN Dennis Feldman
said it was not known whether any of
the hijackers were armed.
It was the-third hijacking to Cuba in a
week - an Air Florida jet was hijacked
Wednesday and another Air Florida jet
was hijacked Sunday - and the eighth
successful hijacking since a June 12,
1979, incident.
Sunday's lone hijacker was Spanish-
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