A bar of soap passed off as a bombSourced
He was being flown back to Spain.
His 'bomb' was made of soap.
After the 1954 Guatemalan coup, Francoist agents put Spanish exile Alejandro Finisterre on a plane back to Spain. Accounts say he fashioned a fake bomb from a bar of soap and threatened the flight, forcing a landing in Panama where he was let off.
A small bar of soap
changed the route.
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