Sentence examples for potential hijackers from inspiring English sources

Potential hijackers, he said, could do more damage with silverware or a broken wine bottle.

After 9/11 the initial focus was on more reliable ways of detecting potential hijackers.

He predicts that by 2005, brain mappers will be able to automatically scan the skulls of everyone going through airports to search for potential hijackers.

But an F.A.A. task force in operation from 1969 to 1971 developed an earlier profile of potential hijackers, relying on the work of one of its members, John T. Dailey.

"To blame Malaysian authorities for this is probably unfair – they have to get it right all the time and potential hijackers just have to get through once," he added.

The industry made some grudging concessions — training their ticket sales personnel to single out potential hijackers by their behavior in line — but they also stocked every pilot's cabin with maps of Cuba's José Martí International Airport and Spanish-language phrase cards.

The other detainee deemed a potential hijacker, whose presence at Guantánamo has gone virtually unmentioned in public reports, is a Yemeni called Abu Bara.

A pilot on a United flight urged passengers to throw things at a potential hijacker and wrestle him to the floor with a blanket.

That's right: sometimes, the only barrier between a potential hijacker and control of the plane is a flight attendant brandishing a Bloody Mary mix.The Huffington Post reports that a group of campaigners led by Ellen Saracini, the widow of a pilot killed in the 9/11 attacks, is pushing for Congress to insist that airlines install a second barrier to protect the cockpit while the door is open.

The judge, Leonie M. Brinkema of Alexandria, Va., did not describe the evidence in detail but said it contained information "on security countermeasures which might assist a potential hijacker or terrorist in circumventing aviation security procedures intended to protect the traveling public".

The case of Mohammed al-Qahtani, whom the government has labeled a potential "20th hijacker," has drawn wide notice because he was subjected to interrogation tactics that included sleep deprivation, isolation and being put on a leash and forced to perform dog tricks.