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...aircraft was trying to land at East Midlands Airport near Nottingham, about 100 miles north of London, when it hit an embankment beside the highway, the airline said. The plane broke apart on impact...
Civil Aviation Authority spokesperson Ann Noonan said survivors were being removed from the aircraft...
...said the pilot reported problems in one engine and was having trouble climbing. The twin-engine aircraft disappeared off radar screens at 8:15, she said...
Engineers at Seattle's Boeing Co., makers of the 747, said the explosive almost certainly had been placed in the aircraft's forward baggage hold, just in front of the section where the wings are attached to the fuselage. They estimated that about 10 lbs. of a plastic explosive had in effect decapitated the 747, instantly severing the cockpit and part of the first-class cabin from the rest of the plane. Because the forward luggage compartment is next to the main electronics bay, the explosion instantaneously cut off all communications, electricity and flight controls, explaining why all systems went...
...United States told the U.N. Security Council that the U.S. planes fired on the Libyan aircraft in reaction to hostile actions that "constituted an armed attack" on American forces...