The State - News from March 31, 1987
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A Sacramento mother of five who evaded arrest for 15 years pleaded innocent in Los Angeles federal court to air piracy in the hijacking of a PSA flight from Los Angeles to Cuba in 1972. Ida McCray, 36, was ordered to stand trial May 5 before U.S. District Judge Manuel Real. Allen Gordon Sims, alleged mastermind of the hijacking, is serving a 50-year term in federal prison.
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