The ancient, potbellied C46 of Cuba's nationalized Aerovias Q had barely broken ground from Havana airport, bound for the Isle of Pines with 53 aboard, when five men rushed the flight deck, guns in hand. Two guards aboard the plane fired their pistols. In the point-blank battle, the pilot, one guard and an attacker were killed. Six others, including the copilot, were wounded. Miraculously, the copilot managed to land in a sugar cane field, and the surviving would-be hijackers fled.
They were a different breed from the ex-mental patient who, over Mexico, had commandeered...
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