air plot

It focused mainly on the danger of placing bombs onto aircraft-the approach of the Manila air plot.

Air Plot communicates with the ready room via the "talker" and the ticker tape, which provide pilots with positions of enemy contacts.

The second part, however, would now embrace the idea of using suicide operatives to blow up planes, a refinement of KSM's old Manila air plot.

When all on-duty pilots are present, the squadron commander informs Air Plot of this with the message that "Ready room N is manned and ready."

There they enlisted Wali Khan Amin Shah, also known as Usama Asmurai, in the Manila air plot.

KSM, who had been indicted in January 1996 for his role in the Manila air plot, was seen primarily as another freelance terrorist, associated with Ramzi Yousef.

During the early stages of the action, Wiltsie displayed "outstanding professional ability" as he provided complete and accurate navigational information to air plot, thus enabling the carrier's air group to pinpoint their targets.

One bomb struck the flight deck centerline, penetrating to the hangar deck, effecting destruction and igniting fires through the second and third decks, and knocking out the Combat Information Center and air plot.

Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed masterminded the 1995 Manila air plot, and KSM helped fund Yousef 's attempt to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993.

Yousef was captured in Pakistan following the discovery by police in the Philippines in January 1995 of the Manila air plot, which envisioned placing bombs on board a dozen trans-Pacific airliners and setting them off simultaneously.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed-Yousef 's uncle, then located in Qatar-was a fellow plotter of Yousef 's in the Manila air plot and had also wired him some money prior to the Trade Center bombing.

At the meeting, KSM briefed Bin Ladin and Atef on the first World Trade Center bombing, the Manila air plot, the cargo carriers plan, and other activities pursued by KSM and his colleagues in the Philippines.

In this period, other prominent attacks in which Bin Ladin's involvement is at best cloudy are the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, a plot that same year to destroy landmarks in New York, and the 1995 Manila air plot to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific.