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A photo made Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, over the Bering Strait near Alaska shows a Russian Federation Air Force SU-27 during a simulation of a hijacking of a passenger plane. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 30, 2013 | World
Over Alaska, AP—Flying at 34,000 feet (10,300 meters) over the Bering Strait, the Russian pilots had a singular focus: making sure they smoothly received the hand-off of a “hijacked” jetliner from their US-Canadian counterparts. Up here, there were no...
