Almost 30-years-ago, William Potts hijacked a passenger airliner bound for Miami to fly him to Cuba where the Black Panther hoped he would be welcomed with open arms by fellow Marxist revolutionaries. Instead, the New York native was sentenced to 15-years hard labor by Fidel Castro's government and now the man described as the 'homesick hijacker' wants to return to the United States to apologize to the people who he terrorized back in 1984. However, it seems the U.S. government wants nothing to do with the man who still considers himself a revolutionary and who also believes his time in Cuban prison should override the indictment he would surely face back in America for airplane hijacking.
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William Potts calls himself the 'Homesick Hijacker'
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In March 1984, on a Miami-bound Piedmont Airlines flight that originated in Newark, N.J., Potts pushed his call button and gave the flight attendant a note saying he had two accomplices aboard with explosives
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Now the Mount Vernon, N.Y., native wants to return to the United States to apologize to his hijacking victims
In the meantime, his daughter's were handed U.S. citizenship and passports and returned to live his relatives in December, while Potts still waits for news from the U.S. Attorney's office in @placeholder.