Spanish Airliner Led to May Terror Scare
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Fighter planes from three European countries intercepted and tailed a Spanish airliner in a terror scare in May after the civilian aircraft's pilots failed to answer messages from air traffic controllers, the Spanish airline said Wednesday.
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An airliner that diverted to Stansted during a bomb scare left for New York yesterday after its 301 passengers and crew spent the night in hotels.
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Spanish police acting on a telephoned bomb threat evacuated Ibiza airport in the Balearic islands on Saturday, and later used a controlled explosion to detonate a suspicious package, airport officials and press reports said.
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TENERIFE, Canary Islands -- A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots foiled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water in his face, and about 10 people pounced on him, Spanish officials said yesterday.
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A flight from Los Angeles to London was diverted to New York Thursday because of what officials said may have been an unfounded security scare.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - Passengers overpowered a suspected armed hijacker who had commandeered a Mauritanian plane on Thursday when he was knocked off his feet during a hard landing, a source close to the Mauritanian presidency said.
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A passenger jet was hijacked Thursday shortly after takeoff from Mauritania, but the incident ended after the plane landed in the Canary Islands, where it was raided by security forces and a suspect was arrested, Spain's Foreign Ministry said.
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Irish police questioned 239 passengers  traveling on an Aer Lingus flight from New York to Shannon  airport in southwest Ireland on Friday after a bomb scare  sparked a security alert.
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A British Airways flight from London to New York was forced to turn back Wednesday after U.S. authorities refused to allow one of the passengers to land, saying he posed a terrorist threat, the airline said.
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Spaniards see terrorism as Spain's  biggest problem after Basque separatists ETA killed two people  in a bombing of Madrid's international airport in December, a  poll showed.
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A British Airways flight was today forced to make an unscheduled landing in Amsterdam, accompanied by Dutch fighter jets, after a &quot;specific threat&quot; was reported.
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Spaniards see terrorism as Spain's biggest problem after Basque separatists ETA killed two people in a bombing of Madrid's international airport in December, a poll showed.
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Aviation officials in the US had many warnings that airlines might be hijacked in the months before 11 September.
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Emergency services evacuated Spain&#39;s  Ibiza airport on Saturday after a bomb warning in the name of  Basque separatists ETA, the website of newspaper El Mundo said,  quoting airport authorities.
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An Air Mauritania passenger plane that was hijacked after it left the Mauritanian capital has landed in Spain's Canary Islands, according to Spanisn media reports.Comment
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A man suspected of triggering the bombings of Spanish trains last March may also have met with the suicide hijackers who attacked the United States in 2001, a Spanish newspaper said.
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Authorities downgraded Britain's terror threat level Monday, offering hope to travelers mired in chaos at airports since security forces foiled an alleged plot to bomb packed trans-Atlantic jetliners. But more flights from London were canceled on the fifth day of the crisis.