Good work by American and foreign intelligence officials pinpointed explosives hidden in packages shipped in Yemen and bound on airplanes for the United States.
Five years later, with Mubarak gone and Qaddafi about to fall, I got on an airplane bound for Cairo.
(We are really on an airplane bound for Miami where I will recuperate from a recent divorce).
Similarly, a 19-year-old Minnesota man was indicted on accusations that he tried to support Isis after being pulled off an airplane bound for Turkey last year.
True story: in 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked an airplane bound from Portland, Ore., to Seattle and demanded a ransom along with four parachutes.
The body of Mr. Zongo, like those of all the bodies packaged this way at Francisco's Funeraria on First Avenue, is bound for an airplane and African lands.
A six-passenger airplane bound for Long Island MacArthur Airport crashed on its runway approach shortly before 5 30 p.m. yesterday, resulting in minor injuries to the two men on board, according to the Suffolk County police.
The administration recently halted transfers to Yemen in the wake of the attempted bombing of an airplane bound for Detroit on Christmas — a plot believed to have been developed by an affiliate of Al Qaeda based in Yemen.
Monday night, a frailer Mr. Demjanjuk, now 89 and once again stateless, boarded a special medically equipped airplane bound for Germany, where he is accused of being an accessory in the murder of 29,000 Jews while working as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in eastern Poland.
Later this week, an Italian airplane bound for Australia will take off under the heavy weight of some most precious musical cargo.
"I was told by the White House that they are connected, that they are part of the same operation," Representative Peter King told CNN a day after news of the intercepted bomb that authorities said was intended to make its way to an airplane bound for the United States or other Western country.
