The terrorists used ordinary tools -- airplanes, box cutters and knives -- to turn ordinary office buildings into tombs, to transform an ordinary workday into hell on earth.
And the slogan on one airplane's box ("No waiting, no hassles, just fly") seems perfectly pitched to New Yorkers of all ages.
The laptops are being treated much the way the transportation safety board handles airplane "black boxes" recovered from water: initially, they are kept immersed, because when they are pulled out of the water, they start to corrode.
If we had been told, before Sept. 11, 2001, that a group of terrorists planned to hijack four airplanes with box cutters and fly them into buildings, we might have been amused then, too.
For fun he restores antique airplanes (see box, opposite).
Agency investigators helped retrieve body parts and the airplane's black box after the Sept. 11 attack at the Pentagon.
It shows pressures and flows in charts that, at first glance, look a bit like the ones that emerge from an airplane's black box after a crash.
Many cars already have such recorders, simplified versions of an airplane's "black box," which capture data in the last few seconds before airbags are deployed, and keep information like engine speed, brake and accelerator application, and power of impact.
After sleeping on an airplane hugging the box to his chest, he bumps along a dirt road on a bus, then hitches a ride on the back of a motorcycle, finally arriving in a remote fishing village in Tonga.
At a Thursday press conference, a French prosecutor said recordings from the airplane's black box suggest Lubitz brought the A320 Airbus down deliberately.
