Friday, November 29, 2002

With Attack on Plane, No Vacation From Violence

In the cockpit, the captain, Rafi Marek, 46, felt a bump. Nothing worrying, he said later, not unlike a small bird hitting the belly of the Boeing 757-300. Officials said later that the plane had not actually been hit or damaged in any way.

"Right after feeling this bump, we saw two white stripes coming up from behind the airplane on the left side and a bit above us," he told reporters at Ben-Gurion International Airport here, after the plane arrived at 12:39 P.M. local time. "We were not sure exactly what happened," he added, saying later that the streams of smoke were perhaps 100 yards away.…
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/29/international/africa/29PLAN.html

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