The volatile mountainous region is also suspected to be the hiding location of the al Qaeda member who formulated the recent London plane bombing plots and is rumored to be a close associate of Ayman al-Zawahiri, second-in-command of the terrorist network.
The Hindu said Indian intelligence managed to track down the accomplices when the hijackers contacted the Indian accomplice Dec. 29, asking him to tell a TV correspondent in London that the plane would be blown up if their demands were not met.
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By last Wednesdayevening, Mr. Klein was on a plane to London to help manage the crisis from its core.
He will then fly to Moscow with England for the crucial fixture against Russia - a four-hour flight and three more time zones - four days later, before returning to London to catch his plane back to Los Angeles for the Galaxy's penultimate game of the season against New York the following evening.
This meant the crew had already worked their maximum hours for the day, even though the pilots were able to fly the plane back to London.
In 2011 the captain of a Boeing 767 was unable to gain re-entry to the flight deck having taken a short break, with the plane airborne over the London area.
Meanwhile at Imperial College in London, Varnavas Serhides designed a plane that has no tail by taking advantage of advanced "fly-by-wire" controls and eliminating the need for a horizontal stabilizer and vertical tail, which also reduces drag.
When Secretary Rice talked to us on the plane on the way to London she acknowledged that she was caught off guard by the very strong showing of Hamas.
The bullet plane once did New York to London in 2 hours, 52 minutes--65% quicker than your typical jumbo jet.
Helen Abel, a solicitor from East Finchley in north London, was stuck at Heathrow on a plane bound for Sri Lanka for almost 11 hours on Saturday.
In February the plane lost its front wheels landing at London City Airport on arrival from Amsterdam.
It was his first trip outside of Cuba, and his government still clearly controlled his every move: During a layover in London the Cubans were not allowed to exit the plane.
This led to us climbing on his plane and going to Athens and then to London, where we finally found sunshine.
My own feeling of liberation as the plane took off from Nice airport headed for London could hardly have been bettered by that of poor Madame Lavisse as she stepped from her elevator prison and inhaled the fresh air of freedom.
Even if the hijacking is considered kindly, it's a miracle that the plane and its human cargo made it to London unscathed. (The only minor injury was to a flight attendant who, having apparently angered the hijackers, was kicked down the plane's rear stairs to freedom.) Shortly after taking off from Kabul for Mazar-i-Sharif, normally a 40-minute flight, the 727 was reported missing.
Police officers, the UK's Angolan community and residents of a west London street where a stowaway fell to his death from a plane are hoping a computerised image of the man's face and a photo of his tattoo will lead to his identification.
Even early this morning, a New York-bound flight from London turned around in midair after a cell phone went off on the plane.
Given his past behaviour, there was a suspicion that he might fly into London, feel a bit funny and get straight back on the next plane home.
As Copping's story becomes known, British authorities are hoping to bring his plane back to the United Kingdom and put it on display at the RAF Museum in London.
Within about four hours of stepping off a flight from London, Sharif was taken into custody and charged with corruption, but then quickly spirited to another plane and flown out of Pakistan toward Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, a close aide to President Gen.
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