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According to Aeroflot Captain Oganes Babayan, the pair had burst into the cockpit and when the pilots tried to radio an alarm to the ground, opened fire. One passenger said the stewardess was killed as she tried to keep the hijackers out of the cockpit. The hijackers carried five firearms and three hand grenades-an extraordinary arsenal in any case but particularly for Soviet citizens, who are prohibited from owning firearms without special permission.* They also had about $5,000 in Soviet and U.S. currency...
...land." The guerrilla had no intention of smoking. Instead, while the giant Clipper was still 100 feet off the ground, he lit the fuse to his explosives. As the fuse began to burn, the hijackers told the passengers: "You have eight minutes." But Captain Priddy, captive in his cockpit, knew none of this. Landing in early-morning blackness at an unfamiliar airport, he might have elected to abort the approach and go around for another landing. Fortunately...
...slide to safety on the plastic evacuation chutes. But Captain Priddy, still unaware of the emergency, inched the 747 forward a few yards, throwing some passengers from the slides. Then the crew was allowed to leave. "You have two minutes," one gunman informed Priddy as he sat in the cockpit. The crew had run only as far as the wingtip when the $25 million craft exploded into a ball of fire. Egyptian authorities seized the three commandos. At week's end, there were still no charges placed against them ?partly, no doubt, because Nasser had welcomed the Athens hijackers...
...planes have been strengthened on the inside to withstand grenade explosions. The cockpit is kept locked at all times, and the pilot and copilot can observe the passengers on closed-circuit television. Lavatories are inspected for time bombs each time a passenger has used them, and some planes are equipped to pump tear gas through the ventilation system to incapacitate hijackers -and passengers as well. In such an event, the crew would put on gas masks...
...cockpit, he introduced some of the most sophisticated electronic gear ever carried on a sailboat, including a tape device that plots the boat's course as well as a small computer that tells Skipper Bill Ficker his true speed toward the mark (as opposed to speed through the water). Below the waterline, Chance installed a smaller keel and restyled the stern with a V-shaped bustle. Result: a remarkable 18% increase in Intrepid 's theoretical speed...