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Terrorist Bomb Fails to Down Philippine Airlines Flight 434

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How Captain Reyes Disengaged the Autopilot

Captain Reyes instructed first officer Jamie Herrera to take hold of his own controls and then deactivated the autopilot. They said that they were very scared at this point because they knew that after the initial impact, you know, explosion, the plane banked hard to the right. "I don't know that they know 100% that it's a bomb, but I think they have a very strong suspicion that a bomb went off"

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