Once on a flight to Chicago, U.S. customs took the majority of the Canadians out of the line and into little rooms, where we were all detained for half an hour (almost missing our flight), asked a barrage of questions, digitally finger-printed and had our eyes scanned.

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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.

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