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To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.
But last week's pirates, like the Cuban-American who recently hijacked an Eastern Airlines Electra ( Newsweek, Aug. 7 ), wanted to go to Havana.
Stalling:
`` Tell your company there are four of us here with guns '', the elder man told Rickards.
The pilot radioed El Paso International Airport with just that message.
But, he told the `` skyjackers '', the 707 didn't carry enough fuel to reach Havana ; ;
they would have to refuel at El Paso.
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