Plane takeovers a dangerous reality

in the news | March 16, 2014

CNN

Peter Bergen:

Air Safety Week, an aviation industry magazine, ran a story in January 2001 observing that, "the number of cases where the sanctity of the cockpit is threatened seems to be on the increase. In the last three years, there were at least 14 known attempts to enter the cockpit."

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