First Return To Vietnam
In the 1990s he decided to take up anti-communist activities, and in 1992, he hijacked a Vietnam Airlines airliner. Ly Tong's copilot claimed that he was forced to fly over Ho Chi Minh City so that Ly Tong could drop thousands of leaflets calling for insurrection against the communist government of Vietnam.
He parachuted and jumped from the plane, but he landed in a swamp and was apprehended by Vietnamese soldiers and sentenced to 20 years.
In 1998, the Vietnamese government released him as part of an amnesty program along with other democracy activists.
Colonel An Vo from New Orleans is said to have went back to help him become free.
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