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MIAMI: Saddo Ibrahim learned his lesson Friday in Miami after the Lebanese man brandished a tape recorder wrapped in tinfoil and threatened to blow up Iberia Airlines Flight 6621 if he was not taken to Miami. The DC-10 was flying from Madrid to Havana when Ibrahim stepped forward with a letter opener and his "bomb." Holding two wires connected to the tape recorder, he demanded that the pilot divert the flight and told the passengers and crew: "If I put these two wires together, this bomb will blow up." The plane landed in Miami at about...
EAST MORICHES, N.Y.: The voice recorder tapes from the doomed TWA Flight 800 cut off 12 minutes into the trip with an unusual noise lasting a mere fraction of a second, but authorities hope that sound will explain what caused the plane to explode into a fiery ball last week. James Kallstrom, assistant FBI director, told reporters Thursday that "we know there was a catastrophic explosion; it was caused by some kind of a bomb, obviously. We're not further describing how that would be, whether it was carried on whether something hit the plane from outside and caused...
When Harold Abrahams went to the starting line in Paris in '24, his coach, Sam Mussabini, told him, "Only think of two things--the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell till you break the other." There is a little more to the 100 than that. Even though it's over in a heartbeat, the race has three distinct stages: start, acceleration and deceleration. The start itself has two components, the reaction to the gun and the angle of takeoff. Says Brigham Young University track coach Willard Hirschi: "If you come...
...participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with the U.S. Army, was exposed to Agent Orange, developed multiple sclerosis and died in 1980. Gloria used to send her father tapes of her singing when he was away. He once sent back a tape with a message: "One day you're going to be a great star...
...Transportation Federico Pena vowed to turn their attention to such hot-button issues as the use of subcontractors for aircraft maintenance. They'll leave industry cheerleading to others. Given that this decision came after the death of 110 people, questions linger about the FAA's capacity to untangle red tape and effect radical change...