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Terrorists that perpetrate more random acts, such as the downing of an aircraft, do not belong to movements, she says. Instead, they are individuals from countries without power trying to use violence against a more powerful country...
Experts caution too that what security measures do exist here drape passengers in an illusion of safety. The reality is that U.S. airports have no systematic way of screening for explosives that a terrorist might want to sneak aboard an aircraft. Metal detectors might miss plastics or liquids used to assemble a bomb, as might bored, poorly paid and poorly trained operators of X-ray machines. At some U.S. airports, including Kennedy, checked-in luggage for international flights is sniffed by specially trained dogs or scanned by electronic vapor-particle detectors that can locate explosives. But if the explosives...
...airline only recently converted to computers to set fares and manage its inventory of seats to boost revenues for each flight. Notes Brian Harris, airline industry analyst for Lehman Bros.: "TWA had been operating in a 1970s time warp." This backwardness apparently did not apply to safety and aircraft maintenance. Unlike some airlines, TWA didn't outsource its maintenance to cut costs...
...fire in the plane. It was old and faulty equipment. It was the hydraulic system, the electrical system, the structure. A small aircraft hit it in midair. It was a terrorist bomb. Nearly everyone suspects that first and strongest, and the more officials say not to speculate about it, the more one speculates. Within a few hours, when it is clear that none of the 200-plus people who were on TWA Flight 800 are going to be found alive, the mood of the town is laden with sorrow. East Moriches (established early 1700s, population a little more than...
Brian Williams, one of NBC's rising stars, was anchoring the channel's hour-long evening newscast Wednesday night when reports began filtering in about an aircraft exploding off the coast of Long Island, New York. It was one of those defining moments for a TV news organization: trying to make sense of a big breaking story from the first sketchy information without making a fool of yourself. MSNBC won the initial bragging rights: it aired the first bulletin on the crash a full eight minutes before CNN did. After that, however, 16-year-old CNN proved more resourceful...