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AIRCRAFT 10 Su-22 fighter-bombers, 5 MiG-21 fighters, 10 transport helicopters and 40 cargo planes...
...pain looks likely to spread to other industries as corporate profits get hit. Many companies, such as Intel and United Technologies, are bracing for the call-up of the Reserves, which will sap those organizations of expertise that isn't easily replaced. And new, tougher security measures for cargo at airports, shipping ports and border crossings could disrupt the just-in-time supply chain that has been one of the key accelerators of growth during the past decade. Companies could be forced to carry higher, costlier levels of inventory. With critical parts delayed at the U.S.-Canada border, Ford, General...
...when the men boarded American Flight 77, the airline had never been warned or provided with their names. Ridge will look for ways to improve both detection and communication. Border security is expected to be an early focus. But with 1.3 million people, 340,000 vehicles and 58,000 cargo containers entering the country every day, he'll need truckloads of money to improve...
AIRCRAFT 8 transport helicopters, 3 cargo airplanes...
...just before takeoff. Investigators deliberately set off 25 emergency-exit alarms, only to find almost half of them ignored. They accomplished all this, according to the Inspector General's findings, with apparent ease, "piggybacking employees through doors, riding unguarded elevators, walking through concourse doors, gates and jet-bridges...and cargo facilities unchallenged, and driving through unmanned vehicle gates." The massive amount of construction going on at the nation's airports, including two of last week's suspect ones, Logan Airport in Boston and Newark airport in New Jersey, also gives slews of unauthorized workers room for mischief...