India warns of hijack threat to Air India
The Indian interior ministry is recommending stronger security measures for Indian airlines when it received intelligence “on a threat from militants to hijack an Air India plane.”
The warning comes just days before India’s annual Republic Day on Tuesday, when there are often security scares.
“We have alerted our civil aviation security people against a possible attempt to hijack an Indian airlines flight,” U.K. Bansal, the special secretary for internal security in the Home (interior) Ministry said.
US warns against same airport security systems
The United States advised against using identical security systems throughout the world because it might make it easier for “potential attackers to elude them,” said US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
“What we want to avoid is a ‘cookie cutter’ (identical) approach, because then the terrorists know about the approach and they plan around it,” Napolitano said during a visit to Europe to discuss tightening airport security.
Sully’s ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Airbus For Sale
Although it’s in pieces, the Airbus that landed in the Hudson is up for sale.
The auction — “As Is/Where Is (New Jersey),” Chartis Insurance Group is compelled to disclose — does not include the airliner’s engines or avionics, and the lot is somewhat in pieces. But apart from that it seems to be surprisingly intact for a craft that hit the water at a normal touchdown speed with ad hoc landing gear comprising the entire fuselage and wings — which, by the way supported all 155 people aboard as they safely deplaned and awaited rescue craft on the frigid Hudson.
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