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Egypt foils bid to hijack flight from Turkey
Cairo :: Egypt | about 1 month ago
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Air marshalls foiled an attempt by a Sudanese passenger to hijack an EgyptAir flight from Istanbul to Cairo on Wednesday and divert it to Jerusalem, an Egyptian security official said. Minutes after take-off, the passenger took hold of a knife provided...
Tags: Cairo, EgyptAir, Egypt Air Boeing, Egyptian, Istanbul, attempted hijacking, air marshals, hijacking thwarted, security official, plastic knife
Two Air Vice Marshals promoted as Air Marshals
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 8 months ago
Credibility The government of Pakistan has promoted Air Vice Marshals Tahir Rafique Butt and Farhat Hussain Khan to the rank of Air Marshal. According to a press statement issued here Wednesday, Air Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt was commissioned in Pakistan Air Force...
Air Marshals to Fly on Bulgarian Planes to the US
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility S 18 June 2008, Wednesday Bulgaria's Interior Ministry is going to develop a special Air Marshal Program to provide armed security guards for airplanes flying directly from Bulgaria to the US. The Air Marshal program would become effective when Bulgarian...
Tags: Bulgaria, air marshals
Air marshals grounded in list mix-ups
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility familiar with the situation say the mix-ups, in which marshals are mistaken for terrorism suspects who share the same names, have gone on for years — just as they have for thousands of members of the traveling public. One air marshal said it has been...
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Air marshal training going soft, flight cops say
San Diego :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility California (CNN) -- Their mission is to protect airline passengers from acts of terror on U.S. flights. But in a special investigation, former and current air marshals told CNN that the number of marshals assigned to police flights is so low that the...
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