HIALEAH GARDENS, Fla. — Sylvia G. Iriondo, a survivor of the Cuban Air Force shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue aircraft, stood before reporters on Thursday in Hialeah Gardens.
Iriondo, 81, said she was in one of the “three small defenseless, unarmed little” Cessna 337 Skymasters, which she said “look and feel like motorcycles.”
Iriondo was among the eight volunteers who departed the Opa Locka Executive Airport at about 3:20 p.m. on Feb. 24, 1996, and among the four who returned…