Two days later, as the commandeered ship plowed through a storm 200 miles southeast of Hilo on the Big Island, the crew overpowered the drowsy assailant, and later re-established radio contact with the owners and set a course for Hawaii.
In Moscow, the commandeered airliner's next stop, for refueling, nine riders were allowed off.
At the high school, on Cockermouth's highest ground, nurse Gill Aitchison was among scores of volunteers looking after other elderly victims, some of them groggy after a night on mattresses in the commandeered hall.
It only ended when Israeli aircraft struck one of the commandeered vehicles after it crossed the border.
While all of this was going on, Mugabe made private deals with foreign entrepreneurs, including mining companies, which promptly moved onto the commandeered land.
Surrounding the memorial, three granite benches are engraved with the flight numbers of the commandeered planes, and tall grasses recall the field in Shanksville, Pa., where United Flight 93 crashed.
The commandeered computers, which security experts call zombies, are often programmed to fabricate the Internet's version of a return address so that the sources of the attack are obscured.
The creator of SoBig created a smokescreen of 20 hosts that would communicate with the commandeered machines through encrypted messages, but the network still had a single central download site.
Sinit, Mr. Stewart said, does something unexpected: it uses the commandeered machines to form a peer-to-peer network like the popular Kazaa program used to trade music files.
John Ashcroft, the attorney general, said investigators believed that each of the commandeered planes had been hijacked by groups of three to six men armed with box cutters and plastic knives that would have been difficult for airport security officials to detect.
