| Date: | Wednesday 11 December 1968 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Boeing 727 |
| Owner/operator: | Trans World Airlines - TWA |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 39 |
| Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Havana-José Martí International Airport (HAV) -
 Cuba
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Nashville Metropolitan Airport, TN (BNA/KBNA) |
| Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA) |
TWA's inaugural non-stop flight from Nashville to Miami was hijacked. Twenty minutes after takeoff a pulled gun and entered the cockpit, demanding to be taken to Cuba. The aircraft landed at Havana, Cuba, where the hijacker and a female passenger both left the aircraft.
Sources:
St. Petersburg Times - Dec 12, 1968
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