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The section on accidents and incidents contains a minor error. When Flight 707 was hijacked on 13 AUGUST 1980 it landed in Havana after the Captain announced, "We're going to do a charter service to Havana...the temperature in Havana is currently..." The perpetrators did not "surrender" to US authorities then or later, as the section here would imply. Nor did they surrender, per se, to the Cuban troops waiting for them to deplane using the mobile staircase (the plane had taxied a very long ways from the terminal). When a flight crew member opened the door the perps started yelling, "Viva Cuba, viva la revolucion!" The Cuban soldiers weren't buying it. They greeted the perps with the butt end of their AK47s, cuffed them, loaded them into a bus and hauled them off to new accommodations. Passengers deplaned and were driven to the terminal by bus where we were met by some kind of official who spoke to us in Spanish. I have no idea what she said. But our bar tab was picked up by Air Florida - so we sipped strong (but rather flat) cervezas and watched out the windows as Cuban troops searched all of the luggage. The Cubans obviously took all of this very seriously. Once we were back on the aircraft we flew to Miami without further incident, were debriefed by the FBI, and then had to go through Customs. I was about eight hours late getting to Detroit, having missed my connecting flight. I will upload my travel agency receipt and clipping from the Key West Citizen if that is deemed useful. Let me know.