Anti-Terrorism Drill Is Staged at Airport
Authorities staged an anti-terrorism drill at Boston’s Logan International Airport, responding to a simulated hijacking.
Operating on the premise that gun-toting terrorists were trying to hijack a United Airlines plane carrying 169 passengers from Paris to Chicago, two F-15 Eagle fighter jets intercepted the airliner over the Atlantic Ocean and forced it to land at Logan.
On the ground, FBI and state police tactical teams stormed the plane, freed the volunteer “hostages” and arrested two “terrorists.” Operation Atlas cost about $700,000 and brought together about 50 federal, state and local agencies.
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