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stepping back in time...
March 8, 1972
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/8/newsid_4268000/4268151.stm
"1972: TWA jet explodes at Las Vegas airport"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A bomb has exploded aboard a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 at Las Vegas airport.
No-one was injured in the blast which destroyed the cockpit of the aircraft as it stood empty on the tarmac.
The explosion happened hours after an anonymous phone caller threatened TWA with a series of bomb attacks unless £760,000 was handed over.
The caller instructed airport officials at Kennedy Airport in New York to go to a locker where they found a note, which said there would be explosions at six hourly intervals on four of the company's aircraft.
Sniffer dogs found a bomb, which consisted of 3lb (1.36kg) of plastic explosives and a timing device, aboard a TWA aircraft at the airport in New York, 12 minutes before it was timed to explode.
It was found in a case labelled "crew" in the cockpit.
A few hours later police boarded a second TWA jet at the airport but nothing was found.
The aircraft which exploded in Las Vegas was thoroughly searched and left New York after the first bomb was discovered.
It flew to Las Vegas with only 10 passengers and was searched again once it landed.
The aircraft was then put under armed guard before the plane exploded seven hours later.
Debris was blown more than 100 feet (30 metres) away but two security guards escaped uninjured."
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Man sneaks 14 guns into jet's cabin at OIA
orlando sentinel ^ | March 7, 2007
Posted on 03/07/2007 10:24:02 PM PST by stainlessbanner
An airline employee at Orlando International Airport used his security privileges Monday to sneak a duffel bag containing 13 handguns, an assault rifle and 8 pounds of marijuana aboard a Delta flight to San Juan.
Puerto Rico police arrested Thomas Anthony Munoz, 22, of Kissimmee and confiscated the weapons after he walked off Delta Air Lines Flight 933 on Monday afternoon, carrying a bagful of weapons. It was unclear Tuesday night precisely who notified Puerto Rico authorities at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport near the capital of San Juan, but it's possible that Munoz's arrest was part of a larger gun-running and drug investigation.
A federal official insisted that passengers were never in danger.
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A sworn affidavit by an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Puerto Rico states that police on the island were tipped by authorities in Orlando. According to ATF agent Marco Carrillo's affidavit, Munoz used his Comair identification card to sneak the weapons aboard. Munoz told Carrillo that another employee at the Orlando airport recruited him to smuggle the drugs and guns aboard after learning that he was having money problems.
That employee, identified in the affidavit only as ZAB, told Munoz he had smuggled guns and drugs to Puerto Rico before. He then offered Munoz $4,000 to $5,000 to do the same, Carrillo wrote in the affidavit. Carrillo went on to describe how the two men planned the deal: On Friday, they met at a convenience store in Kissimmee where ZAB received two wire transfers for $1,800 from a contact in Puerto Rico. The next day, they returned to the same store and received another wire transfer of an undetermined amount of money. Then, Sunday, Munoz went to ZAB's house in Kissimmee, where he watched the man pack the duffel bag with marijuana and weapons that he had bought at a gun show in Tampa.
At about 2 a.m. Monday, Munoz returned to ZAB's house, where the two men plotted how Munoz would skirt the security network at the airport. They arrived at the airport an hour later and gained access to restricted areas by using their identification cards, Carrillo stated. That's how Munoz was able to sneak the bag past the airport checkpoints manned by the Transportation Security Administration. He placed the guns and drugs at a secure area near a departure gate, and by 11:04 a.m. he was boarding the plane with the duffel bag. It's not clear how much federal authorities knew at this time or whether they had agents aboard the plane watching Munoz. Puerto Rico police Superintendent Pedro Toledo said Tuesday that gun running from the mainland, especially Central Florida, is a major problem on the island that fuels a black market and a high murder rate.
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1 posted on 03/07/2007 10:24:05 PM PST by stainlessbanner