List of Cuba-US aircraft hijackings
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Below is a non-comprehensive list of hijacking incidents of aircraft between Cuba and the United States.
1960's
- May 1, 1961 Antulio Ramirez Ortiz hijacks a National Airlines flight from Miami International Airport to Cuba.[link]
- November 20, 1967 Louis Gabor Babler, born in Hungary, successfully hijacks a Crescent Airline Piper Apache from Hollywood, Florida, to Cuba; the plane was scheduled to go to the Bahamas. [link]
- February 17, 1968 Thomas J. Boynton, hijacks a private charter Piper Apache from Marathon, Florida to Cuba. He returned to the United States via Canada on November 1, 1969 and was sentenced to 20 years for kidnapping. [link]
- February 21, 1968 Lawrence Rhodes, hijacks a DC-8 from Tampa, Florida to Cuba. He surrenders in Spain on February 10, 1970. A January 4, 1971 hijacking charge against him is dismissed; he was committed to a mental institution; on July 8, 1971 he return to prison; he is sentenced to 25 years for robbery on July 17, 1972. [link]
- March 12, 1968 Three Cubans hijack a DC-8 from Tampa, Florida to Cuba; all are fugitives. [link]
- July 1, 1968 Velasquez Fonseca, born in Cuba, hijacks a B-727 from Chicago to Cuba. [link]
- July 12,1968 Leonard Bendicks hijacked a Cessna 210 from Key West, Fla., to Cuba. He is deported to U.S. in September 1968. On March 4, 1971, he is sentenced to 10 years for kidnaping.[link]
- July 17, 1968 Hernandez Leyva, a Cuban, hijacked a DC-8 from Los Angeles to Cuba.[link]
- August 4, 1968 Jessie Willis hijacks a Cessna 182 from Naples, Florida to Cuba; he returns voluntarily via Mexico on January 10, 1969; he is sentenced to 10 years for kidnaping; he is paroled on July 28, 1971. [link]
- August 22, 1968 Bill McBride, hijacks a Cessna 336 from Nassau to Cuba.[link]
- November 4, 1968 Raymond Johnson hijacks a b-727 from New Orleans to Cuba. [link]
- November 24, 1968 Three Cubans hijack a B-707 from New York to Cuba.[link]
- November 30, 1968 Montesino Sanchez, a Cuban hijacks a B-720 from Miami to Cuba. [link]
- December 5, 1968 Eduardo Castera hijacks a B-727 from Tampa to Cuba.[link]
- January 2, 1969 Two Americans hijack a DC-8 from New York to Cuba. [link]
- January 11, 1969 A man hijacks a B-727 from Jacksonville, Florida to Cuba; he returns via Canada on May 5, 1969; he is acquitted of air piracy and kidnaping on grounds of temporary insanity.[link]
- January 13, 1969. A man unsuccessfully attempts to hijack a CU-880 from Detroit to Cuba; he is sentenced on July 31, 1969, to 15 years for interference with a flight crew; he had a history of mental illness.[link]
- January 17, 1969. A man from Dominican Republic hijacks at DC-8 from New York to Cuba. [link]
- January 24, 1969 A man hijacks a B-727 from Key West to Cuba; he was a 19-year-old Navy deserter who "didn't want to go to Vietnam". [link]
- January 28, 1969 Two men successfully hijack a DC-8 from Los Angeles to Cuba; they are prison escapees.[link]
- January 31, 1969 Allan Sheffield hijacks a DC-8 from San Francisco to Cuba; he says he is "tired of TV dinners and tired of seeing people starve in the world".[link]
- February 3, 1969 A 21-year old student and his girlfriend attempt to hijack a plane from New York City to Cuba; when the pilot refuels in Miami, the hijackers allow the passengers to deplane; the police capture the hijackers.[link]
- February 3, 1969 Two Cubans hijack a B-727 from Newark, N.J., to Cuba.[link]
- February 10, 1969 A man born in Cuba hijacks a DC-8 from Atlanta to Cuba.[link]
- February 25, 1969 A man hijacks a DC-8 from Atlanta to Cuba; he surrenders to U.S. authorities in Prague, CSR, in September 1969; he is sentenced to life imprisonment on July 7, 1970.[link]
- March 6, 1969 Black Panther Tony Bryant (d.1999 at 60), hijacked a National Airlines plane enroute from NY to Miami and directed it to Cuba. He was arrested in Cuba and spent a year and a half in jail and was pardoned in 1980. His 1984 book "Hijack" described his experience in Cuban prisons.[link]
- March 17, 1969 A man hijacks an airliner from Atlanta to Cuba; he returns via Canada on November 1, 1969; he is committed to a mental institution on February 1, 1972; he is released on second 18-month furlough on December 5, 1973.[link]
- March 19, 1969 A man tries to hijack a CV-880 from Dallas to Cuba; he ends up in New Orleans; charges are dismissed due to insanity.[link]
- May 5, 1969. Jean Pierre Charrette and Alain Alard (one Canadian, one unknown) successfully hijack a B-727 from New York to Cuba.[link]
- May 23, 1969 Three men born in Cuba successfully hijack a B-727 from Miami to Cuba.[link]
- June 17, 1969. A man hijacks a B-707 from Oakland to Cuba. [link]
- June 22, 1969 A man born in Cuba hijacks a DC-8 from Newark, N.J., to Cuba. [link]
- June 25, 1969 A man successfully hijacks a DC-8 from Los Angeles to Cuba.[link]
- June 28, 1969 A man successfully hijacks B-727 from Baltimore to Cuba. He returns via Canada in November 1969; he is sentenced to 15 years for interference with a flight crew on October 6, 1970.[link]
- July 26, 1969 Man hijacks a DC-8 from El Paso, Texas, to Cuba. He returns via Canada on November 1, 1969; he is sentenced to 50 years for aircraft piracy on September 14, 1970. [link]
- July 31. Chicago, 1969 A man successfully hijacks a B-727 from Pittsburgh to Cuba.[link]
- August 14, 1969 Two Cubans hijack a B-727 from Boston to Cuba.[link]
- September 7, 1969 A man hijacks a DC-8 from New York to Cuba. [link]
- September 10, 1969 A Puerto Rican unsuccessfully tries to hijack a DC-8 (scheduled for San Juan) to Cuba; he is committed to mental institution on January 30, 1970; he is released in December 1971.[link]
- September 24, 1969 A Cuban hijacks a DC-8 from Charleston, S.C. to Cuba.[link]
- October 21, 1969 A man hijacks a B-720 from Mexico City to Cuba. he committed suicide in Cuba on September 28, 1970.[link]
- November 4, 1969 Two armed men seize a Nicaraguan airliner en route from Miami to Mexico; they divert it to Cuba.[link]
- December 26 , 1969 . M. Martinez (alias) hijacks a B-727 from New York to Cuba.[link]
1970's
- February 16, 1970 A man who was born in Cuba, with wife and two children, successfully hijacks a B-727 from Newark to Cuba; he is still a fugitive. [link]
- March 11, 1970 A man hijacks a B-727 from Cleveland to Cuba; he is imprisoned in Cuba for Attempting to escape; he is fatally shot escaping from prison on March 26, 1973.[link]
- April 22, 1970 Ira David Meeks hijacked a small plane from the United States to Cuba.[link]
- May 25, 1970 A man successfully hijacks a B-727 from Chicago to Cuba.[link]
- July 1, 1970 George Lopez hijacks a DC-8 from Las Vegas to Cuba. [link]
- August 2, 1970 A man hijacks a plane bound for San Juan from New York to Cuba.[link]
- August 19, 1970 Three men (two born in Cuba, one born in Spain) hijack a DC-3 from Newark to Cuba (the plane's destination was San Juan).[link]
- August 20, 1970. A man successfully hijacks a DC-9 from Atlanta to Cuba.[link]
- September 19, 1970 A man successfully hijacks a B-727 from Pittsburgh to Cuba.[link]
- October 30, 1970 L. Rosas hijacks a DC-8 from Miami to Cuba. [link]
- November 1, 1970 A man born in Mexico successfully hijacks a B-727 from San Diego to Cuba; he has two children with him. [link]
- November 13, 1970 A man hijacks an airliner from Raleigh to Cuba. [link]
- December 19 , 1970. A man attempts to hijack a DC-9 from Albuquerque to Cuba. He is taken into custody at Tulsa; he is sentenced to 5 years subject to a medical mental examination for conveying false information about an attempt to commit air piracy.[link]
- January 22, 1971 A man successfully hijacks a B-727 from Milwaukee, Wis., to Cuba; he would have gone to Algeria, if possible.[link]
- February 4, 1971 A man successfully hijacks a DC-9 from Chicago to Cuba.[link]
- February 25, 1971 A man successfully hijacks a B-727 from San Francisco to Cuba or Canada; he ends up in Canada; he is deported on March 8, 1971; he is sentenced to 10 years for interference with a flight crew.[link]
- March 31, 1971 A man born in Venezuela successfully hijacks a DC-8 from New York to Cuba; he returns to the United States via Bermuda on October 8, 1974.[link]
- April 5, 1971 A former Cuban hijacks a Cessna 402 from Key West to Cuba.[link]
- July 24, 1971 A man born in Cuba, successfully hijacks a DC-8 from Miami to Cuba, a stewardess and a passenger are wounded.[link]
- September 3, 1971 A man born in Cuba, attempts to hijack a plane from Chicago to Cuba; he is sentenced to 20 years for interference with a flight crew on March 6, 1972.[link]
- October 9, 1971 A man forces his way aboard a B-727 in Detroit and hijacks it to Cuba; he is still a fugitive.[link]
- October 18, 1971 A man born in Canada, unsuccessfully attempts to hijack a B-737 from Anchorage to Cuba; the attempt ends in Vancouver; he is deported to the United States on October 19, 1971, and is sentenced to 20 years for air piracy on May 12, 1972.[link]
- October 25, 1971 A man born in Puerto Rico, successfully hijacks a B-747 from New York to Cuba; the plane was bound for San Juan; he is still a fugitive.[link]
- October 29, 1971 A man, his two sons, and a third youth hijack an Eastern Airlines jet from Houston to Havana. They kill a ticket agent during seizure of plane. [link]
- March 7, 1972. Two men force their way aboard a Chalk's Flying Service Grumman 73 (G/A) in Miami, Florida, wounding the pilot, a mechanic, and a bystander. They hijack plane to Cuba.[link]
- March 19, 1972. A man and woman successfully hijack a Cessna 206 from Key West to Cuba.[link]
- May 4-6, 1972. Michael Hansen hijacks a B-737 flight from Salt lake City to Los Angeles; he wants to go to Hanoi or Cuba; he goes to Cuba.[link]
- October 29, 1972 Four men force their way aboard an aircraft. They kill a ticket agent, wound a ramp serviceman, and hijack a plane to Cuba.[link]
- November 10, 1972. Three men successfully hijack a DC-9 from Birmingham to Cuba with $10 million and 10 parachutes. The co-pilot is wounded; two are sentenced in Cuba to 20 years, one to 15 years; they threaten to crash the plane into the Oak Ridge nuclear installation; at McCoy Air Force Base, Orlando, the FBI shoots out the tires; the plane finally lands on a foam-covered runway in Havana. [link]
- December 14, 1974 Robin Harrison charters a plane by phone, on arrival at the airport office in Tampa, he points gun at the pilot of a Piper Seneca and demands a flight to Cuba.
1980's
- 1980 hijacking of a Delta Air Lines from New Orleans, bound for Atlanta. The pilot flew to Havana, the hijackers were removed from the plane and the flight, with 81 passengers, continued to Atlanta. [link]
2000's
- September 19, 2000 An Antonov AN-2 crashed into the sea west of Cuba. Cuban authorities said the plane was hijacked after take-off from Pinar del Rio. [link]
- August 14, 2001 Elderly couple attempt to hijack the plane and force the pilot to fly to Cuba. In the ensuing scuffle the plane crashed into the sea near Florida and the couple drowned.[link]
- November 11 2002 Cuban AN-2 aircraft, registration No. CUC-1086, was hijacked. The plane landed at the Pinar del Rio airport before flying to Key West in Florida.[link]
- March 19 2003 Six men, some armed with knives, took control of a Cuban state airline plane as it headed to Havana from Cuba's Isle of Youth. US Air Force fighter jets intercepted the DC-3 plane, run by Cuban state airline Aerotaxi, shortly before it reached Florida late on Wednesday evening. The US jets then escorted the plane to Key West's airport, where the suspects surrendered without incident.[link]
- April 1, 2003 Man carrying two grenades hijacked a Cuban domestic airliner demanding that it fly to the United States, it landed in Havana due to insufficient fuel.[link]
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