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Former LIers recall 1968 hijacking to Cuba

Michael Oppenheim was 15 in 1968, when, on a trip to Puerto Rico with his family, his plane took an unexpected detour to Cuba.

One of the armed men who commandeered that Pan American flight was arrested Sunday after arriving on a flight from Cuba to Kennedy Airport, 41 years after the hijacking, federal authorities said.

Longtime fugitive Luis Armando Pena Soltren "terrorized dozens...

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