The Air Force uses an array of aircraft, such as the U-2 spy plane, the high-altitude Global Hawk drone or satellites and systems that can gather intelligence from space.
Washington (CNN) -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday there is a "renewed sense of urgency in the international community" about terrorism after the Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard a U.S.-bound plane, and the U.S. should now push for global security standards for international airports and aircraft.
In this case, the government had information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, but no one added him to either the no-fly list, which would have prevented him from boarding a U.S.-bound plane, or the selectee list, which would have triggered secondary screening that might have caught the explosives hidden under his clothes.
Yevgeny Primakov turned his U.S.-bound plane around in mid-transit to protest the bombing.
When asked if his son met with the man charged with trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane on Christmas day, al-Awlaki's father said it's not likely.
The simulation constructed from the plane's data recorder shows the 757 making a U-turn over Ohio, as Jarrah heads the plane southeast, toward Washington, D.
While Airbus announced a smaller 13-plane order from Turkish Airways, some U.S. airlines announced different levels of price hikes in order to cover surging fuel prices.
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Branson says he'd gladly hire Captain Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger, the U.S. Airways pilot who successfully crash-landed his plane in the Hudson River in January.
Under a deal with then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan's administration, Kim boarded a plane to the United States in 1982.
Turkey's government angrily denied a recent Wall Street Journal article citing U.S. officials who said the plane was most likely downed with shore-based antiaircraft guns over Syrian waters.
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In 1988, Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Raphel were killed when Zia's plane exploded after takeoff.
The only actual historical citation of an attempt I could find for a large plane landing on a U.S. Highway was Southern Airways Flight 242, a DC-9, in 1977.
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The plane was registered to Pat Porter, a two-time Olympian and an eight-time U.S. cross country champion.
AeroVironment's remote-control attack plane may be small, but it represents a big shift taking place in the U.S. military: Today's defense robotics are more focused on killing and less dependent on humans than ever before.
The members of the 75th Ranger Regiment -- a U.S. special operations force -- were training at Joint Base Lewis-McChord when they jumped from a plane and got entangled in towering evergreen trees that canvass the sprawling military installation between Tacoma and Olympia.
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