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| Pan Am 281 hijacker arrested after 41 years |
| 2009-10-13 |
| US authorities have arrested Luis Armando Pena Soltren, a man wanted in connection with the hijacking of a Pan American flight to Puerto Rico in 1968. Justice Department spokesman Richard Kolko said that Soltren was arrested on Sunday at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York, where he and his accomplices, armed with guns and knives, boarded a Pan American flight 41 years ago and hijacked it. Pan American flight 281 had departed JFK and was bound for San Juan, Puerto Rico, when it was diverted in November 1968, the Associated Press reported. Since the hijacking Soltren has been in Cuba. He will appear in the Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, Kolko said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Hey, that happened even longer ago than the Polanski whatever-it-was-rape-thingy. Can't we all just forget about it? |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-10-13 22:22 |
| #5 How did he get to the US? Cuba to New York through Mexico? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-10-13 14:38 |
| #4 Hollywood signs petitions in 10, 9, 8, ... |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2009-10-13 13:19 |
| #3 Release on humanitarian grounds in 10 ... 9 ... 8 ... |
| Posted by: Black Bart Ebberens7700 2009-10-13 12:12 |
| #2 He probably needed medical care so came back to the US to surrender so he could get it. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-10-13 07:51 |
| #1 Good catch but this raise more questions than answers. How did he get to the US? What name and what kind of documents did he have? What was he doing, what was his intent? And the big one was ho is paying his way and why? The FBI must be having a field day with this clown... |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-10-13 07:34 |