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...provide "technical" assistance for a raid on the plane. The antiterrorist unit had been put on alert shortly after the plane's seizure. At 8 p.m. on Dec. 24, some nine hours after the Airbus was taken, about 40 G.I.G.N. troopers took off from a military base near Paris aboard an Air France Airbus A300, identical to the one that had been hijacked. Created in 1974, the G.I.G.N. comprises some 60 "supergendarmes" deployed in four units of 15 men each. Highly trained and motivated, they specialize in such crisis situations as hostage takings and hijackings. Their commander was Major Denis...
Last summer, despite the company's strong legal position, Brinton says she was invited for coffee by some current Tyson employees, whom she refuses to identify, who made "an implication" that if Henrickson didn't drop his lawsuit, they would step forward and testify that he transported drugs aboard Tyson airplanes. Nobody has followed through with the threat, which Henrickson reported to the FBI, even though Henrickson has appealed his case. Other Tyson pilots dismiss the drug-running charge against Henrickson as preposterous. Henrickson believes the threat was intended to scare him away from talking about the alleged deliveries...
...American Eagle commuter plane crashed on its approach to Raleigh-Durham International Airport in rainy and foggy weather, killing 15 of the 20 people aboard. The fatal accident was the second in two months for the shaken airline. Trying to allay mounting passenger fears, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced that approval of toughened safety standards for commuter flights would be speeded up, but the Federal Aviation Administration said it could take a year to put the new rules in place...
...told my husband, 'I don't want her on that plane.' " It was a nearly miraculous choice. American Eagle Flight 3379, the plane Misty had been booked , on, crashed last week in Morrisville, North Carolina, on its way from Greensboro to Raleigh, killing 15 of the 20 passengers aboard...
...sixth anniversary of the explosion aboard Pan Am's Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it will begin installing a new plastic explosives detector technology that might have prevented that and other terrorist bombings. The $8 million move -- first disclosed last week in TIME Daily -- means that U.S. airports with international service will install it this year, with a FAA verdict on additional sites to follow by early 1996. The detectors, which use X-rays and CAT scan-like technology to scan passenger luggage, is now in use at Brussels and London airports...