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Mr. McMahon, 60, has led New York's troopers for nine years and played a leading role in the investigations of the 1996 explosion of a T.W.A. jetliner off Long Island and the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
The Five were agents whom Cuba has always maintained it sent to Miami, in the nineteen-nineties, to keep tabs on extremist Cuban exiles, of the kind who were responsible, for example, for blowing up a Cuban jetliner off Barbados in 1976.
Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, China, the U.S. and other countries were participating in the quest to find the jetliner off southern Vietnam where the Gulf of Thailand meets the South China Sea.
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In 1993, a jetliner taking off from Frankfurt was hijacked by a German passenger who smuggled a gun through security controls.
Manpads are a weapon of special concern because they are compact, easy to smuggle and relatively simple to use, especially against slow and predictable targets like a civilian jetliner taking off or landing.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 1 (AP) — Moments before their jetliner skidded off a runway and exploded as it slammed into a building, pilots of the TAM Airlines Flight 3054 screamed, "Slow down!" and "Turn, turn, turn!" flight recorder transcripts disclosed Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — Two United Airlines A320 jetliners skidded off runways in recent months because of crossed wires in their antilock brakes, the airline said.
That checkered history may encourage some plaintiffs' lawyers to go after both airlines and their subcontractors as well as the airports from which the hijacked jetliners took off.
The turmoil at the maintenance center comes amid a continuing investigation by federal safety officials into the Jan . 31crash of one of the airline's MD-83 jetliners off the California coast, which killed all 88 people aboard.
The Paris-bound jetliner, which took off from Kennedy International Airport on July 17 , 1996 crashed in the waters off Smith Point County Park, killing all 230 passengers and crew members.
