Reply #4: I'd say that chortle is misplaced, wouldn't you? [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Especially considering it appeared to be attached to some inference the Cuban government is trying to keep the information suppressed.

There are surely multiple articles appearing on this situation. Here's one:

Two Cuban soldiers arrested in plane hijack
Thu May 3, 2007 6:08 PM EDT

HAVANA (Reuters) - Two Cuban army recruits tried to hijack a passenger plane to escape to the United States early on Thursday but were arrested after killing a hostage on board the plane, the government said.

The soldiers hijacked a bus with passengers, took it to Havana airport and seized an empty passenger plane. They killed one of the hostages, an unarmed army lieutenant colonel, on the plane before being captured by security forces, it said.

Armed hijackings are rare in Cuba. In March 2003, two domestic passenger planes were hijacked to Key West, Florida. A month later, three men who hijacked a Havana Bay ferry in a bid to cross the Florida Straits were executed by firing squad.

http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-05-03T220848Z_01_N03474146_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-CUBA-HIJACK-COL.XML&archived=False

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Slight understatement by Reuters on the other hijacking, considering the hijackers had held knives to the throats of their hostages, sending some of them leaping over the side into the ocean to escape.