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An activist opposed to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, Bình had been arrested for occupying the South Vietnamese consulate in New York; his visa was revoked on 7 June and he was expelled from the U.S.. Bình, who boarded the flight in Honolulu, ostensibly decided to hijack his flight home as an "act of revenge".
Flight 841, a Boeing 747, was hijacked over the South China Sea by 24-year-old Nguyen Thai Binh in protest of the US involvement in the Vietnam War as well has his expulsion from the US. The aircraft continued to Saigon where Binh was shot and killed by a retired police officer traveling as a passenger. April 4, 1979
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (also known as the 9/11 Memorial & Museum) is a memorial and museum that are part of the World Trade Center complex, in New York City, created for remembering the September 11, 2001, attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six. [4]
A man was arrested in New York City on Monday and accused of jumping into a reflecting pool at the 9/11 Memorial, police said. Man jumps into reflecting pool at 9/11 Memorial in New York City Skip ...
Three of the hijackers carried copies of an identical handwritten letter [5] [6] (in Arabic) that was found in three separate locations: the first, in a suitcase of hijacker Mohamed Atta that did not make the connection to American Airlines Flight 11 that crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the second, in a vehicle parked at Washington Dulles International Airport that ...
United 23 was due to take off around 9am from New York City's JFK Airport. Like the other planes used in 9/11, it was a cross-country flight – in this case, bound for Los Angeles – which meant ...
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department (PAPD), which is the law enforcement agency which has jurisdiction over the World Trade Center due to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey owning the site, has confirmed that four of its police officers have died of 9/11-related illnesses. The chief of the PAPD at the time ...
New York City is set to hold a memorial service on Sunday morning, the 15th anniversary of 9/11. The coordinated attacks on September 11, 2001 took the lives of 2,996 innocent people, making it ...