Six Cubans on trial for alleged plane hijacking.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

Byline: Ann W. O'Neill

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ A federal prosecutor urged a Key West jury to convict six Cubans of charges they hijacked a passenger plane, saying the men ``took a whole planeload of people someplace they didn't want to go.''

``This case is not about Castro,'' Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry Wallace said Tuesday, summarizing seven days of testimony from 14 witnesses, including two of the accused hijackers.

``This case is not about Cuba,'' Wallace continued. ``This case is not about communism. This case is about what these six defendants did.''

And what they did March 19 as the aged DC-3 approached Havana, the prosecutor said, …