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...BERN, N.C. Abdul Hakim Murad, who authorities said trained at flight schools here and in three other states, confessed in 1996 that he was part of an elaborate plot that included bombing U.S. jetliners in midair and flying a small craft loaded with explosives into CIA headquarters...
...planes listening for that dreaded "Is there a doctor onboard?" announcement. I've been called only once--for a woman who had merely fainted. But the incident made me curious about how often this kind of thing happens. I wondered what I would do if confronted with a real midair medical emergency--without access to a hospital staff and the usual emergency equipment. So when the New England Journal of Medicine last week published a study about in-flight medical events, I read it with interest. The study estimated that there are an average of 30 in-flight medical emergencies...
...with a broad and bloody brush. Ichi dispatches his victims with a large rotating metal blade that flicks out of his sneaker. Heads, legs and arms erupt amid geysers of blood from his almost every encounter. A woman's nipples are sliced off; one male victim, suspended naked in midair by wires, comes close to losing his family allowance. In all this Miike's slick and self-aware technique serves to accentuate the mental problems of his characters and their emotional disfunction?the occasional child's sobs off screen are intended to remind the audience that these are the acts...
...Then came the short mental picture of the inside of a plane, oxygen masks down, plummeting to the ground while the plane gave its death rattle to the background of terrified screams. Infamous crash sites would pop up: a fireball consuming TWA Flight 800 to Paris that blew up midair; the smoldering ruins of the Concorde after a botched take-off; seeing the recent crash of the plane on the way to the Domincan Republic. All the while during this photo-montage, my brain would drone with the whispered line from that Alanis Morissette song?...
...WHAT IT IS Two or more jumps strung together with no steps in between. Top women pull off combos involving three midair revolutions per jump...