Cockpit Intruder Was Escorted to Jet
From Times Wire Reports
An airline passenger who wrestled with the crew in the cockpit of a nose-diving jumbo jet had been escorted to the Kenya-bound flight at London’s Gatwick Airport after he showed signs of nervousness and confusion and had called for the police, British Airways said in London. The Boeing 747-400, with 398 people on board, survived two violent nose dives over Sudan during the Friday night attack by the passenger, whom the captain reportedly described as “a madman.”
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