If you're a British Airways passenger hoping to take Flight 223 between London and Washington Dulles International (VA), you're probably wondering just what in the hell is going on these days. On New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, the flight from Heathrow has been canceled -- as has the return flight. What gives? ABC News reports the flight has been targeted by al Qaeda operatives who want to turn the commercial jet into a guided weapon and aim it at the Capitol.

One of the biggest problems facing spy-types in the war on terror is linguistics. Arabic and English don't look very compatible at first glance. At second glance, that suspicion is confirmed. Throw in French as a wildcard and you have a good possibility for screwing up. That's apparently what happened in the case of six Air France flights between Paris and Los Angeles during the week of Christmas.

Al Haynes is something of a god to a lot of pilots -- commercial, charter and GA. He's the man who wouldn't quit, who flew right up to the edge of the envelope, then over. Not that Haynes wanted to. It was probably the last thing on his mind when he took off aboard United Flight 232 on July 19, 1989. Shortly after an engine malfunction severed the hydraulic lines on Haynes' DC-10, he could have given up. He didn't. Only able to make left turns, and sloppy ones at that, Haynes and his crew did the impossible, guiding the crippled jetliner to the airport in Sioux City (IA). The landing wasn't pretty -- 112 people were killed in a ball of fire. But many more were saved, thanks to Haynes determination and resourcefulness. Now Haynes, who is 72, is fighting to save another