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...world. And now China, which has sold conventional missiles to Iran in the past, is stepping up efforts to deter Pyongyang from moving missile and missile-related technology to Iran. A high-ranking diplomat in East Asia tells TIME that China has denied overflight rights to North Korean aircraft bound for Tehran...
...some of the 9/11 hijackers, as part of Al Qaeda's Hamburg cell. According to the report, after a U.S. request Zammar was arrested in Morocco by local police. He was questioned in Morocco by CIA officials and then flown to Damascus; the intelligence report does not specify which aircraft transferred...
...Paul Forrell, a Swedish border official, described to Grey in January 2005 how the Gulfstream V jet N379P, also registered to Premier Executive Transport, touched down at Bromma, an airport used for small aircraft, one night in December, 2001, while he was on duty. They were there to collect two Egyptian asylum-seekers living in Stockholm, whose deportation to Cairo had been approved earlier that day by Swedish cabinet members. On board the jet were American men wearing black ski masks - who joined two men in business suits, who introduced themselves as coming from the U.S. Embassy, in Forrell...
...story New York apartment building. Though initial reports indicated that the plane issued a distress call, in a late-night press conference Deborah Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board did not report such a call. Hersman said the NTSB was just beginning its investigation, including looking at the aircraft, the engine and the actions of the pilot...
...Lidle's plane was under "visual flight rules," meaning the pilots - not air traffic controllers - are responsible for keeping an eye out for other aircraft or obstacles. Lidle did not (and was not required to) file a "flight plan," or detailed route, with the Federal Aviation Administration before taking off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. General aviation planes like Lidle's typically have transponders that automatically send out a signal that makes them visible on an air traffic controller's radar...