More than four decades after he hijacked a jetliner from Kennedy International to Cuba, Luis Armando Pena Soltren was arrested at the same airport upon his return from exile, authorities said.
Pena Soltren, who was arrested Sunday after arriving on a flight from Havana, was expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Manhattan on a 1968 indictment. He was in custody Monday.
Pena Soltren and two accomplices used weapons hidden in a diaper bag to hijack the Pan Am flight on Nov. 24, 1968, authorities said.
"As the 1968 charges allege, he terrorized dozens of passengers when he and his cohorts wielded pistols and knives to hijack Pan American Flight …
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