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>Looks like it’s over, hijackers are in custody.  Bomb squad has the hand >grenades. > What will happen to the AN24 now?

It will be added to the Delta Air Lines fleet for flights out of San Jose and other cities where CAPPS II is in use by Delta.  ;-) Cheers, Steve

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Looks like it’s over, hijackers are in custody.  Bomb squad has the hand > grenades. > http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/04/01/cuba.hijacking/index.html >25 passengers and 7 crew?  How’s that for inefficiency? >Wait, let me guess: >pilot >co-pilot >flight engineer >radio operator >political officer >2 flight attendants

The Cubana AN24 I travelled in had 4 crew on the flight deck and at least 2 flight attendants. If there was a political officer he didn’t make his presence felt. There was a strange radar display mounted on a pivot on the centreline of the windscreen, blocking the view forward a bit, which could swivel so that the pilot or co-pilot could look into it. ATC language in Cuban airspace was Spanish, which surprised me a bit. I wish now that I’d noted the serial number. I’ve got some photos somewhere so might be in luck… — Simon Elliott http://www.ctsn.co.uk/

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> > What will happen to the AN24 now? > It will be released to fly back to Cuba with whomever wants to go.

Nope.  It will kept by the US government and sold at auction.  This is in order to satisfy the legal demands of a group that sued the Cuban gov’t over the "Brothers To The Rescue" plane that the Cubans shot down a few years ago. — Best Greg — Best Greg

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>> > What will happen to the AN24 now? > It will be released to fly back to Cuba with whomever wants to go. >Nope.  It will kept by the US government and sold at auction.  This is in >order to satisfy the legal demands of a group that sued the Cuban gov’t over >the "Brothers To The Rescue" plane that the Cubans shot down a few years >ago.

Where will the auction be held? Anyone care to take a guess at the going rate for an AN24 with one previous owner? — Simon Elliott http://www.ctsn.co.uk/

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> Looks like it’s over, hijackers are in custody.  Bomb squad has the hand > grenades. > http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/04/01/cuba.hijacking/index.html

25 passengers and 7 crew?  How’s that for inefficiency? Wait, let me guess: pilot co-pilot flight engineer radio operator political officer 2 flight attendants

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> What will happen to the AN24 now?

It will be released to fly back to Cuba with whomever wants to go.

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>> > And I thought that since 9/11 that passengers will tackle > > the hijacker(s). Hmmm, maybe it because the hijacker > > doesn’t look Middle Eastern. > This was a domestic Cuban flight. I am not aware of a > terrorist problem in Cuba. > All hijackers are terrorists.

Well, given the forty years of Cubans attempting to hijack, sail, row and stowaway their way to the US, one might consider that the terorists are the ones in charge in Cuba. After all, like the East german Border Guards and the STASI, thankfully both now out of business, the Cuban government seems to have consistently mandated a stringent emigration policy. "Tourism" to a place which only allows the most loyal of its citizens to take tourist trips ought to have some dissuading constraints for "Progressives".   With the opening of baseball season, this year may provide more of the "realignment" popular among Cuban players, many of whom exercise the defection clause to terminate their contracts with Cuban teams. ….But Cuba’s not so bad.  After all, one would rather be a Cuban Olympian than to have been selected for the Iraqi Olympic team which, as media rumor would have it, has a rather stringent training regime and a harsh and punitive "coach". TMO

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> Looks like it’s over, hijackers are in custody.  Bomb squad has the hand > grenades. > http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/04/01/cuba.hijacking/index.html

And I thought that since 9/11 that passengers will tackle the hijacker(s). Hmmm, maybe it because the hijacker doesn’t look Middle Eastern. — Andy P. Jung Metairie, Louisiana  U.S.A. http://www.JungWorld.com/ To reply via e-mail, please visit my web site.

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> And I thought that since 9/11 that passengers will tackle the hijacker(s). > Hmmm, maybe it because the hijacker doesn’t look Middle Eastern.

This was a domestic Cuban flight. I am not aware of a terrorist problem in Cuba.

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> > And I thought that since 9/11 that passengers will tackle the hijacker(s). > Hmmm, maybe it because the hijacker doesn’t look Middle Eastern. > This was a domestic Cuban flight. I am not aware of a terrorist problem > in Cuba.

All hijackers are terrorists.

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>Looks like it’s over, hijackers are in custody.  Bomb squad has the hand >grenades.

What will happen to the AN24 now? — Simon Elliott http://www.ctsn.co.uk/

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