Hijacker who killed two deported to Panama

A Panamanian former member of the US Navy who killed two people during the hijacking of a bus on Independence Day 1977 in the United States  has been deported to Panama. 

Luis Robinson, 61 received probation on Monday after spending 34 years in prison. Agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) escorted him to a commercial flight in New York, on Wednesday.

He served 34 years of a sentence of 15 years to life imprisonment for killing two people, the driver and a passenger on a bus from the Bronx International Airport with 25 passengers on board.

In 1977, Robinson was 26 and was an apprentice in the navy and had been a permanent  resident since 1964.

After hijacking the bus he demanded a ransom of $6 million dollars and a plane to take him to Cuba. He surrendered after nine hours of negotiations when two police armored vehicle struck the bus.

When the bus passed through the Bronx, the Panamanian shot John McGavern, a 50 year old passenger and ordered the driver to go to Kennedy Airport.

But the truck went through a security door and entered the track, interrupted air traffic for about 15 thousand passengers.

During the crisis, Robinson killed, Nettie Blassberg a 60 year old passenger and threw his body onto the road. He then killed the driver Norman Bozick.

Another passenger, Jimmy Lo, from Hong Kong, misunderstood an order from the kidnapper and was  shot and wounded.

Initially, Robinson pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of homicide and kidnapping, but a year later pleaded guilty to two counts of murder.

In 1999 an immigration judge revoked his legal residence and ordered his deportation from the US when he completed his sentence.