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Flight Attendant Survived 33,000 Feet Fall With No Parachute. Read Vesna Vulovic's Story
Vesna Vulovic was temporarily paralysed from the waist down by the fall, but she never surrendered to despair.
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Lufthansa Plane Evacuated At Belgrade Airport After Bomb Threat Call
A Lufthansa plane bound for Frankfurt was evacuated at Belgrade airport on Thursday after police received a call saying a bomb was on board, the Serbian interior ministry said.
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"Can Sins Be Pardoned?" Woman Who Killed 115 Before Last Korean Olympics
Until recently, she could often go full days without reminders of what happened. She preferred it that way. The event was so long ago. It was so terrible. She'd been pardoned for her crimes, and she'd tried to build a new version of her life. She got married. She raised two children. She attended church. She went on hikes - relaxing ones, short one...
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Bomb That Downed Russian Plane in Egypt Placed in Main Cabin: Report
A bomb that downed a Russian plane in Egypt last month had been placed in the aircraft's main cabin not in the cargo compartment as reported earlier, the daily Kommersant said today citing an unnamed source.
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Egyptian Airport Security Under Scrutiny as Bomb Suspicions Mount
Egypt insisted on Thursday its airports were secured to international standards, despite growing concerns that its screening procedures may be flawed and that Islamist militants may have downed a Russian plane by smuggling a bomb on board.
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Turkish Airlines Plane Lands Safely in Istanbul After Bomb Threat
A Turkish Airlines plane landed safely in Istanbul after being recalled due to a bomb threat while bound for Basel, a spokeswoman said, the latest in a series of such incidents that have forced the carrier to divert or recall flights.
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Indonesian Plane in Emergency Landing After Bomb Threat: Official
A passenger plane in Indonesia was forced to make an emergency landing Friday after air traffic control received a bomb threat, an official said, though police later confirmed it was a false alarm.
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Note on flight from London referred to bomb
Officials say a suspicious note was found in the bathroom of a Virgin Atlantic flight to Boston. Phil Orlandella, a spokesman for Logan International Airport, says the note was found Sunday in Flight 11 from London's Heathrow Airport to Boston. He says the note referenced a bomb and was found by a flight attendant.
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Yemeni jet mistakenly bombs army post, kills 30
A government warplane has mistakenly bombed an army position in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 soldiers and wounding many more, military and medical officials said on Sunday.
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Kanishka victims reject Canada's $24,000 ex-gratia
Air India Kanishka victims' families have rejected the Canadian government's offer of $24,000 each for the 1985 bombing that killed all 329 people on board the plane near the Irish coast.The Kanishka flight 182 to Delhi from Montreal was blown off mid-air by a bomb planted by Vancouver-based Khalistani radicals to avenge the Indian army action at t...
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Bombs were designed to destroy planes, believes US
John O. Brennan, the president's chief counterterrorism adviser, said Sunday that American authorities believe now that the two bombs found inside cargo packages were designed to blow up the airplanes carrying them, even though they were addressed to locations "associated with synagogues" in Chicago."We're looking at the potential that they would h...
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Explosives could have downed plane, says Britain
A package shipped from Yemen and bound for the United States on a cargo jet that was intercepted in Britain on Friday contained an explosive device powerful enough to bring down the plane, British authorities said on Saturday."I can confirm the device was viable and could have exploded," said the British home secretary, Theresa May. "The target may...
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Pakistan-bound plane evacuated in Sweden due to bomb threat, suspect detained
Swedish police have detained a man on a Karachi-bound jet with 273 people that made an emergency landing in Stockholm after Canadian authorities received a tip that a passenger was carrying explosives.Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said the man, described as a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, was detained as he was evacuated from the Pakistan...
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Kanishka most barbarous act of terror till date: PM
Kanishka bombing, which shook the country 25 years ago, was remembered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Terming it a "barbarous act", Singh on Wednesday said, terrorism must be fought and eliminated with determination and joint action."This was a horrific incident which shook the world's conscience. It is with a sense of deep pain and sorrow that ...
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Jet Airways flight delayed after bomb threat
A Jet Airways flight from Delhi was delayed for over 5 hours after a passenger threatened to blow up the plane.
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Flight Attendant Survived 33,000 Feet Fall With No Parachute. Read Vesna Vulovic's Story
Vesna Vulovic was temporarily paralysed from the waist down by the fall, but she never surrendered to despair.
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Lufthansa Plane Evacuated At Belgrade Airport After Bomb Threat Call
A Lufthansa plane bound for Frankfurt was evacuated at Belgrade airport on Thursday after police received a call saying a bomb was on board, the Serbian interior ministry said.
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"Can Sins Be Pardoned?" Woman Who Killed 115 Before Last Korean Olympics
Until recently, she could often go full days without reminders of what happened. She preferred it that way. The event was so long ago. It was so terrible. She'd been pardoned for her crimes, and she'd tried to build a new version of her life. She got married. She raised two children. She attended church. She went on hikes - relaxing ones, short one...
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Bomb That Downed Russian Plane in Egypt Placed in Main Cabin: Report
A bomb that downed a Russian plane in Egypt last month had been placed in the aircraft's main cabin not in the cargo compartment as reported earlier, the daily Kommersant said today citing an unnamed source.
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Egyptian Airport Security Under Scrutiny as Bomb Suspicions Mount
Egypt insisted on Thursday its airports were secured to international standards, despite growing concerns that its screening procedures may be flawed and that Islamist militants may have downed a Russian plane by smuggling a bomb on board.
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Turkish Airlines Plane Lands Safely in Istanbul After Bomb Threat
A Turkish Airlines plane landed safely in Istanbul after being recalled due to a bomb threat while bound for Basel, a spokeswoman said, the latest in a series of such incidents that have forced the carrier to divert or recall flights.
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Indonesian Plane in Emergency Landing After Bomb Threat: Official
A passenger plane in Indonesia was forced to make an emergency landing Friday after air traffic control received a bomb threat, an official said, though police later confirmed it was a false alarm.
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Note on flight from London referred to bomb
Officials say a suspicious note was found in the bathroom of a Virgin Atlantic flight to Boston. Phil Orlandella, a spokesman for Logan International Airport, says the note was found Sunday in Flight 11 from London's Heathrow Airport to Boston. He says the note referenced a bomb and was found by a flight attendant.
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Yemeni jet mistakenly bombs army post, kills 30
A government warplane has mistakenly bombed an army position in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 soldiers and wounding many more, military and medical officials said on Sunday.
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Kanishka victims reject Canada's $24,000 ex-gratia
Air India Kanishka victims' families have rejected the Canadian government's offer of $24,000 each for the 1985 bombing that killed all 329 people on board the plane near the Irish coast.The Kanishka flight 182 to Delhi from Montreal was blown off mid-air by a bomb planted by Vancouver-based Khalistani radicals to avenge the Indian army action at t...
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Bombs were designed to destroy planes, believes US
John O. Brennan, the president's chief counterterrorism adviser, said Sunday that American authorities believe now that the two bombs found inside cargo packages were designed to blow up the airplanes carrying them, even though they were addressed to locations "associated with synagogues" in Chicago."We're looking at the potential that they would h...
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Explosives could have downed plane, says Britain
A package shipped from Yemen and bound for the United States on a cargo jet that was intercepted in Britain on Friday contained an explosive device powerful enough to bring down the plane, British authorities said on Saturday."I can confirm the device was viable and could have exploded," said the British home secretary, Theresa May. "The target may...
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Pakistan-bound plane evacuated in Sweden due to bomb threat, suspect detained
Swedish police have detained a man on a Karachi-bound jet with 273 people that made an emergency landing in Stockholm after Canadian authorities received a tip that a passenger was carrying explosives.Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said the man, described as a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, was detained as he was evacuated from the Pakistan...
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Kanishka most barbarous act of terror till date: PM
Kanishka bombing, which shook the country 25 years ago, was remembered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Terming it a "barbarous act", Singh on Wednesday said, terrorism must be fought and eliminated with determination and joint action."This was a horrific incident which shook the world's conscience. It is with a sense of deep pain and sorrow that ...
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Jet Airways flight delayed after bomb threat
A Jet Airways flight from Delhi was delayed for over 5 hours after a passenger threatened to blow up the plane.
