American Notes NEW YORK

January 1969: Linda Grinage, infant daughter strapped to her back and Husband Tyrone Austin at her side, boards a Miami-bound airplane in New York City. Crying "Black power, Havana!" the couple hijacks the plane to Cuba. Grinage holds a gun to the head of a two-year-old passenger.

July 1988: outside her home in Albany, just three blocks from Governor Mario Cuomo's mansion, Child-Care Worker Haziine Eytina is arrested by FBI agents. Her real identity, authorities say, is Linda Grinage, 39. She is charged with air piracy, an offense that carries a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison. After receiving an anonymous tip in 1987 that Eytina was the fugitive skyjacker, authorities spent a year piecing together bits of evidence and | comparing Grinage's handwriting samples with welfare applications that Eytina had filled out in Albany. Grinage and her husband evidently returned to the U.S. in 1971. That year, Austin was killed by police as he tried to rob a New York City bank. The FBI says Grinage has lived under a dozen different aliases during the past two decades.