Aircraft Hijacking

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge will be at the western Pennsylvania crash site of Flight 93 for the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Powell will deliver the keynote speech. He will join...

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the government will pay $9.5 million to acquire land so the Flight 93 National Memorial can be built by the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Salazar said Monday that the National Park Service has reached...

MEXICO CITY - A jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun was hijacked by a Bolivian religious fanatic who said he had a divine revelation, according to Mexican authorities. Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna says Jose Mar Flores, 44, told...

As The Times prepares to endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in more than 35 years, the editorial board will examine the candidates' stances on issues through our own sense of the meaning of some essential American values. How much have...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The prosecution's carefully laid strategy to secure the death penalty against confessed terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui neared collapse Monday when an incensed federal judge halted his sentencing trial and ordered a hearing to...

      JAMAICA - An airport spokeswoman says a plane has been hijacked while on the tarmac near Jamaica's resort city of Montego Bay.       Spokeswoman Elizabeth Scotton says there have been no injuries and no passengers are aboard the Boeing 737 at...

"United 93" is not an easy flight to board. This staggering, draining film is exceptionally accomplished but extremely difficult to watch. It turns out to be easier to admire from whatever distance you can manage than to embrace with any kind of emotional...

In two heart-pounding minutes, the trailer for the movie "United 93" shows two passenger planes hitting the World Trade Center and the plight of the passengers aboard the hijacked airliner that crashed into a Pennsylvania field. The movie, centered on...

President Bush, whose time in office and place in history were forever shaped by the Sept. 11 attacks, is playing a central role in the commemorations, from a solemn wreath-laying ceremony at Ground Zero yesterday to a prime-time address tonight to a...

They were the first words that presaged a changed America, an America that could no longer think of itself as invulnerable, as beyond the reach of those who hated us. They were spoken by Betty Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, en...