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In memoriam
Darin Pontell Life was good for Darin Howard Pontell of Columbia: He married in March, loved his job at the Pentagon and just two weeks ago celebrated his 26th birthday with his wife, Devora Volk, parents, in-laws and grandfather. Now Pontell, a Navy...Tags: Health and Safety at School, U.S. Navy, Terrorism, Towson University, Television
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An intrepid few take the first flight out of BWI
Sun StaffATLANTA - On Delta Flight 731 to Atlanta - the first passenger plane out of Baltimore-Washington International Airport since Tuesday's terrorist attacks - pilots and flight attendants carefully avoided mentioning what was on everyone's mind. But the rows...Tags: Transportation, Defense, Air Transportation, Armed Forces, Air Transportation Industry
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Engineers blame collapses on fires
Sun Architecture CriticNew York's World Trade Center was designed to withstand airplanes crashing into the buildings. They could not survive the devastating fires that followed. Those fires - fed by thousands of gallons of jet fuel that poured into the towers - burned at...Tags: Metal and Mineral, New York Weather, Empire State Building, Death, Building Material
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Pilots not surprised by airport security breaches
Sun StaffCommercial pilots who crisscross the country daily in jetliners like those used in yesterday's attacks say the terrorists probably included trained pilots, took advantage of lax airport security and carefully chose the flights they hijacked. The pilots...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Terrorism, National Security, Air Transportation Industry, San Francisco
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Jet flies headlong into the Pentagon
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON -- The nation's capital came under deadly terrorist assault yesterday morning when a hijacked jetliner flew full-throttle into the Pentagon, the storied seat of U.S. military power. Scores were killed and dozens injured. The crash, part of a...Tags: FBI, Terrorism, U.S. Military, Death, U.S. Secret Service
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Jet fuel-fed fire may have melted steel in towers
Sun StaffThe upper floors of the World Trade Center's twin towers collapsed and toppled over because both airplane crashes turned the buildings into infernos, according to the head of the Maryland firm that cleaned up the last terrorist attack on U.S. soil. J....Tags: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Defense, National Security, Terrorism, Armed Forces
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DEVASTATION
Sun National StaffNEW YORK -- Terrorists carried out the most destructive attack on the United States in history yesterday, a horrifying rain of four hijacked airliners that toppled both towers of the World Trade Center in New York and destroyed a section of the Pentagon....Tags: FBI, Terrorism, Television, Civil Unrest, U.S. Military
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US Air plan to cut MetroJet would deliver blow to BWI
Sun StaffIn a move that will have major ramifications for travelers in Baltimore, US Airways Group Inc. has told pilots it plans to eliminate all of its MetroJet fleet as part of a cost-cutting plan, potentially resulting in the loss of 49 of the airline's 75...Tags: Transportation, Terrorism, Air Transportation, Unemployment, Arlington (Staten Island, New York)
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Air safety bill gains House OK
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Propelled by an intense lobbying effort led by President Bush, the House approved last night a federal takeover of airport security that would allow for the continued use of private contractors as baggage screeners instead of replacing them...Tags: Tourism and Leisure Industry, Terrorism, Montgomery County (Maryland), Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Unions
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Weather, hostile fire slow U.S. troop entry
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - More U.S. commandos will be sent into Afghanistan to assist anti-Taliban forces and call in American airstrikes, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday, but he conceded that weather and hostile fire have been impediments to...Tags: Arts, Taliban, National Security, Terrorism, Civil Unrest
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Brave new world for air passengers
Sun StaffSally Marsh had it all laid out on a 4-inch square of white paper. Stranded when the airlines shut down last week, like millions of other business travelers, she was back Monday morning in her home office in Dickeyville, eager to regroup and find simple...Tags: Arts, Tourism and Leisure Industry, Terrorism, Rental Service, Transportation Industry
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