Lone hijacker shows up lack of cockpit defense
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How can a single unarmed passenger hijack an international airliner?
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A cunning pilot thwarted a hijacking by discreetly warning the passengers in French - a language the gunman didn't speak - that he would knock the attacker off-balance with a rough landing, and that they should ...Comment
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A Minnesota flight instructor who notified his bosses of student Zacarias Moussaoui's suspicious behavior received a $5 million reward from the State Department, two government officials told CNN. Moussaoui, sometimes called the "20th hijacker," is the only person charged and convicted in connection with the September 11, 2001, attacks.
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The longstanding policy of boarding passengers starting at the rear of the plane makes limited sense.
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Russia&#39;s security service said two passenger planes which crashed last week with the loss of 89 lives were destroyed by explosives, as Transport Minister Igor Levitin said there&#39;s no evidence the planes were hijacked.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The main US base in Afghanistan fell silent yesterday at the moment the first hijacked jetliner struck the World Trade Center. Soldiers bowed their heads in prayer.
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MADRID, Feb. 15 -- An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew members before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after it landed in Spain's Canary Islands, government and airline officials said.
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Two Russian passenger planes that crashed almost simultaneously last week killing 90 people were blown up in a &quot;terrorist attack&quot; but not by hijackers, investigators said Monday.
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A commuter plane that crashed while approaching an airport this week lacked an updated system that warns pilots when they fly too low, equipment that will be required next year, investigators said.
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A cockpit warning system used by only a few commercial airlines might have prevented the deadly Comair jet crash last weekend if the plane had been equipped with the $18,000 piece of technology, a former top federal safety official says.
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The threat of a terrorist attack on the United States still exists, but counterterrorism officials say there is a conspicuous lack of intelligence "chatter" being picked up.
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The co-pilot responded to turbulence with "inappropriate" use of the controls just before flight 587 crashed.
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Investigators have ruled out the possibility of sabotage in the airliner crash that killed 54 people in North China on Sunday. According to investigators, there is no evidence
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MOSCOW  - Fight recorders have failed to provide reliable information about what brought down two Russian jetliners nearly simultaneously this week, killing 89 people, but that terrorism remained a leading possibility, a top official said Thursday.
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The bodyguard who was the sole survivor of the high-speed crash that killed Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed said Wednesday that he had no memory of the last moments of the fatal trip through Paris.
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A man who hijacked a Turkish Airlines flight on Tuesday was unarmed, working alone and threatened to blow himself up if the pilot did not divert the flight to Italy, Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said.
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And don't waste my time with your roadside bombs One of the US air force's most senior pilots has cast doubt on the usefulness of unmanned aircraft.â¦