Sentence examples for hijackers plans from inspiring English sources

Those denials appear to be the only official actions taken by the government that interfered with the hijackers' plans.

By September 13, the Washington Post was running the story of Flight 93 on the front page, with this declaration: "Some are already describing as heroes the passengers who may have tried to thwart the hijackers' plans".

It was believed the hijackers planned to fly that plane into the White House or else Capitol Hill.

He is believed to be one of the men who sacrificed his life to help thwart the hijackers' plan of killing even more Americans.

Law enforcement officials in recent days said the hijackers planned for the attacks by monitoring the airports, and even taking the cross-country flights, more than once.

Information sent by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to German police officials -- obtained by the German magazine Der Spiegel and provided to The New York Times -- reveals a variety of details about the hijackers' planning and methods.

The Moroccan, Mounir el-Motassadeq, 27, who shares a small apartment with his wife around the corner from the house from which the hijackers planned their attacks, was arrested early today.

As could be expected with an early morning cross-country flight, a number of professionals were aboard the plane, many with special skills that might have helped them to remain calm, thwart the hijackers' plan and try to regain control of the plane.

New concerns arose after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- which involved one plane hijacked from Newark Airport and several hijackers who planned their operations from Paterson, N.J. -- as legal experts argued that it would be unwise for New Jersey to appoint a United States attorney who had never prosecuted a criminal case, much less handled a terror investigation.

The American official said it appeared that some of the hijackers held planning sessions in Hamburg and enrolled in flight training elsewhere in Europe.

Federal investigators are investigating whether the hijackers were planning to seize additional planes, including two American Airlines flights scheduled to leave Newark from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. on the morning of the attacks.