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...were Leila Khaled. 24. a stunning Palestinian ex-schoolteacher, and a male companion, still unidentified. In her brassière Leila carried two hand grenades. She had become a guerrilla heroine in August 1969, when she helped hijack a TWA Boeing 707 to Damascus Airport, where a bomb demolished the cockpit after the passengers and crew had debarked. Later she wrote to several passengers on the flight, explaining that the Popular Front was trying to strike at America's Middle East policy and that the hijack "was not meant against them personally...
...found nothing; they had hidden their weapons under the seats. Flight 93 had just leveled off at 28,000 ft. when one of the men forced his way into the cockpit and held a revolver on Priddy. The hijackers then ordered him to fly to Beirut, where airport officials sent radio warnings to the plane that it would be dangerous for the giant aircraft to attempt a landing on a runway that had not been reinforced to bear the 500,000 lbs. of the immense 747. "My brother, this plane is not like a 707 ?it requires better facilities...
...Rogers, was one of the first top U.S. officials to hear the news. Coupled with Egypt's acceptance the previous week, and that of Jordan, Lebanon and five less directly involved Arab states, Israel's agonized decision signaled a chance for reason and diplomacy in a cockpit of the world too long ridden by irrational hate and frequent gunfire...
...hour aloft, as the passengers were finishing breakfast, Abed Said Malhas and his pretty companion Siham Saadi sprang from their first class seats and forced a stewardess at pistol point toward the cockpit. In the tourist cabin, the other four terrorists whipped out guns and told the passengers: "This is a hijack. We have a plan. We will land in Athens. If our conditions are met, no one will be hurt." The hijackers' conditions: the immediate release of seven Arab terrorists currently in Greek prisons, or the plane would be blown...
...more "lift" to windward and help it perform better in lighter winds. The bow and stern remain the same, but the afterbody has been made fuller with the addition of plastic molding. Intrepid's center steering wheel has been replaced by two wheels on either side of the cockpit, allowing the skipper to vary his vantage point. In addition to the two-wheel drive, Chance plans to add a lighter boom partly made of a new space-age material called carbon-fiber. HERITAGE is the first 12-meter designed, constructed, sponsored and skippered by one man. He is Charles...