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UK: Al Qaeda intended to hit Heathrow in 2003

London, UK - It would have been unveiled by British press by indicating the risk of hijacking to make a commercial plane crash on the air station

British press is highlighting the discovery of an attempt project that Al Qaeda would have thought to perform against Heathrow International Airport in 2003. It seems in fact that some hijackers should have change a civil flight into a kamikaze airplane, leaving from an air station located in Eastern Europe and making the aircraft crash on a terminal of the London’s airport. Other attempters should h...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 128591
Rome, Italy, 10/10/2005 12:56
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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