| Date: | Monday 8 September 1980 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Boeing 727 |
| Owner/operator: | Eastern Air Lines |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 89 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Tampa, Havana -
 Cuba
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) |
| Tampa International Airport, FL (TPA/KTPA) |
Eastern Air Lines flight 161 from Albany to New York, Tampa and Sarasota, was hijacked on the flight leg to Tampa.
A homesick Cuban housepainter carried what he suggested was a Molotov cocktail and demanded to be flown to Havana.
The hijacker surrendered after the aircraft arrived at Havana Airport.
Sources:
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sep 9, 1980
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