Hijacked Cuban Plane Crashes; 4 Rescued
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MIAMI — Three Cuban hijackers used a knife Friday to force the pilot of a small plane to fly to the west coast of Florida, where the aircraft crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Coast Guard and Customs officials said.
All four Cubans aboard were rescued by a lifeboat dispatched from a nearby Russian freighter.
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