Sentence:  To Rickards , a 52 - year-old veteran 30 years in the air , it was an old story : His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had <WSD>happened</WSD> in 1930 , when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  come to pass