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Shortly after Rigoberto Alpizar rushed through the airline cabin clutching a backpack, passenger Mike Beshears saw a man in a Hawaiian shirt bolt out of his First Class seat. The man, who turned out to be a federal air marshal, followed Alpizar toward the jetway. Beshears heard yelling and then a series of shots...
...From his seat in the first row of Coach, Beshears assumed that Alpizar and the marshal were on the jetway, but could not see to the entrance of the plane, which was at a right angle to the main aisle. When he saw the crew running back to the Coach section, Beshears assumed the worst. He was in an exit row and began fumbling to open the emergency door. "I was reaching for the arming device and then somebody said, 'No, get back down. Now!'" Beshears got down on the floor...
...romantic quest to surprise Lynch, VanLare distributed her picture to a dozen airport employees as well as a rose to hand to Lynch as she made her way from the jetway to the baggage claim. When the suspicious Lynch arrived at the baggage claim, VanLare was waiting with another dozen roses and a ring...
...suspect. As a 23-year-old, single male with brown skin and a Muslim name, I could be the man they are looking for. The moment I step off the plane at Kennedy Airport, I see they're looking harder than ever. A dozen federal officers crowd the narrow jetway. Not wanting to attract attention, I avoid their eyes...
...heavily on their ingenuity, but heroes rarely become so by their design. There is no guarantee, of course, that their creations will be used wisely or well. At Boston's Logan Airport, where the planes that hit the World Trade Center began their flight, the security codes to Jetway doors were often scribbled in pencil next to the locks. Technology can always be undone by human error...