New figures show dramatic increase in global attacks |
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THERE were nearly 3,200 terrorist attacks worldwide last year, the Bush Administration said yesterday, using a broader definition that increased fivefold the number of incidents that Washington had previously tallied for 2004. |
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Times Online, July 07, 2005
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Feds Say Men Asked To Enter Cockpit On Flight To JFK |
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Two Georgian men on a Northwest Airlink flight from Detroit to New York were detained Friday after they asked to see the cockpit and one of them initially refused to sit down, the FBI said. |
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WNBC.com, April 15, 2005
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Russian Plane Suspects: Roomies |
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Two women terrorists are the focus of the crashes of two separate air flights that blew up within moments of each other. They lived in the same apartment building and worked in the same market. |
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CBSNews.com, August 24, 2005
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2
in crew stabbed in hijacking attempt |
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A man stabbed two flight attendants
with sharpen wooden stakes when he tried to break into the
locked cockpit of a domestic Qantas jetliner Thursday. |
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International Herald Tribune, May 30, 2003
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Shoe
bomber leaves behind a legacy |
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Shoe bomber Richard Reid is
off to prison after his sentencing, but when you have to take
off your shoes for airport security, you can thank him. |
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CBSNews.com, March 11, 2003
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Air
marshals arrest man on US Airways flight |
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A plane was diverted Saturday after
air marshals arrested a passenger after he began shouting "Majority
rules! Turn the plane around!" |
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CNN.com, March 1, 2003 |
EL
AL hijacking is averted
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Airborne guards foiled an attempted
hijack of an El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, media
reports said Sunday night. |
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28
November 2002.
Source: Jerusalem Post
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Disaster
Discussions/Cockpit Security |
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Why is it so easy to gain access
to the cockpit in the first place. There are plenty of light
weight bullet proof material to use, or make the cockpit only
accessable from outside. |
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FloWeb.com, April 27, 2002 |
Passenger
rushes cockpit |
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Fighter pilots flock to plane's side |
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ABClocal.go.com, April 3, 2002 |
Cockpits
still "vulnerable to terrorists" |
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Cockpit doors on many passenger airliners
are still vulnerable to being stormed by hijackers... |
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Telegraph.co.uk, February 9, 2002 |
Passenger
subdued after he tries to break into cockpit |
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An unruly passenger on a United Airlines
flight from Miami to Buenos Aires tried to force his way into
the cockpit... |
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NCtimes.net, February 8, 2002 |
Raisbeck
conceived secure cockpit door before need arose |
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James Raisbeck was talking with a
United Airlines executive about how his Seattle engineering
company could make the overhead luggage bins on United's Airbus
A320 jets bigger when the subject of cockpit door security came
up. |
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Seattlepi.nwsource.com,
December 3, 2001
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Airbus
introduces ‘terrorist proof’ door |
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As a result of the heightened security
concerns in the wake of September 11, Airbus has certified its
new cockpit doors that meet all recently introduced and pre-existing
safety and security regulations from Europe’s Joint Aviation
Authority. |
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Yahoo.com, June 17, 2001 |
Madman
on Flight 2069 |
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How prayer and two courageous Christians
saved 400 lives. |
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Christianitytoday.com, May 2001 |