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Around this time Atta and other hijackers purchased global-positioning devices known as GPS-3s from Tropic-Aero, an aviation-supply shop in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. These $475 devices, about the size of Game Boys, are used by pilots to navigate. Says Jerry Carbone, Tropic-Aero's president: "It's so simple to use, you and your wife would be able to find your way in a 767 once it's up. It's sad if [the hijackers] were able to use something anyone can get at K Mart...
...airport can take longer than the flight. So fractional-ownership schemes that made private jets more affordable are now available for helicopters. It takes only 120 minutes to chopper from New York City to Capitol Hill--without a rush-hour traffic battle at each end. Dallas to Fort Worth? Fourteen minutes. A commuter chopper is as comfortable as a jet, says HeliFlite Shares CEO Mark Ozenick, left. It's also as pricey. A 60-hour share runs about...
...aftermath of the terrorist attack, consumers and business leaders alike are in mourning. "We're all walking around with heavy hearts, and when you add light wallets to heavy hearts, it's even more devastating," says Nicki Grossman, president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau. All across Florida, where more than half the visitors arrive by air, the once thriving tourism industry has been decimated. In the Orlando area alone, 253 groups representing 32,531 attendees have canceled visits set for September, and an additional 82 groups have nixed their plans for October. In Las Vegas, only...
...Thursday, Stephenson, 39, was getting ready to leave his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to catch a plane to Boston's Logan Airport, where several terrorists had begun their deadly missions on Sept. 11. His jet-setting career had turned grim, as evidenced by his colleagues' new insignias. Some were wearing badges with the names of all the cockpit and cabin crew who perished. Others had black bands placed over their wings. "We still do have people who are fearful and have taken time off. It's time to come back. They might even feel better being back. The rest...
...mosque. Ayub Ali-Khan--believed to be a trained pilot whose real name is Gul Mohammed Shah--and Mohammed Azmath were on a flight from Newark to San Antonio when the attacks began. After landing in St. Louis, they hopped a train, only to be arrested in Fort Worth with box cutters and $5,000 in their...