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BILL RATNER: A deadly
explosion rocks an airliner

flying at 33,000 feet.

A bomb has exploded on
board, Bravo Oscar Mike Bravo.

BILL RATNER: The blast
kills a passenger

and cripples the plane.

The crew struggles
to save 293 lives.

The bombing sets off an
international manhunt

while the terrorist
prepares to strike again.

FLIGHT ATTENDANT (VOICEOVER):
Ladies and gentlemen,

we are starting our approach.

MAN (VOICEOVER): We
lost both engines.

WOMAN (VOICEOVER):
emergency

MAN (VOICEOVER):
Mayday, mayday.

WOMAN (VOICEOVER):
Brace for impact!

MAN (VOICEOVER): I
think I lost one.

Investigation
starting ..

MAN (VOICEOVER):
It's going to crash!

BILL RATNER: It's before
sunrise on December 11, 1994.

While most inhabitants of this
city of a million and a half

have a few more hours to sleep,
26-year-old Arnaldo Forlani

makes an early start.

Forlani is not his real name.

It's the alias he's chosen
for today's mission.

He's actually from
Pakistan, not Italy.

He is putting his
latest invention

through an important test.

Everything must
go like clockwork.

In his line of work,
there's no room for error.

He is a highly skilled
terrorist bomb builder.

He packs the liquid explosive
bomb very carefully.

From his apartment downtown,
it takes less than 30

minutes to get to the airport.

He arrives in plenty of
time for his 5:00 AM flight

with Philippine Airlines.

Before he can board, the
bomber must outwit airport

security screening procedures.

He has designed the
components of his bomb

to pass undetected by X-ray
and metal detection equipment,

or so he hopes.

He bought the ticket
as Arnaldo Forlani.

He is a skilled
forger, and he's

made himself a fake Italian
passport with that identity.

If his cover is
blown, his career

as a globetrotting
terrorist is over.

Having successfully gotten the
bomb through airport security,

he boards his Philippine
Airlines flight.

The final destination
of PAL434 is Tokyo,

but there is a stopover
in the Philippine resort

town of Cebu, over 300 miles
to the south of Manila.

This is as far as the
bomber is flying today.

That's 10,000 feet, and
weather still looking clear.

Thanks, Dex.

Let me get you on autopilot.

ED REYES (ON SPEAKER): Good
morning, ladies and gentlemen.

This is your captain,
Ed Reyes, speaking.

Welcome aboard Flight 434,
flying south from Manila

to Cebu and continuing onward
to Narita Airport, Tokyo.

BILL RATNER: Flight 434 is
under the command of Captain

Ed Reyes, a former
Air Force pilot

who has been flying
747s for Philippine

Airlines for nine years.

Arrival time is now 5:45.

The weather in Cebu is--

BILL RATNER: The first leg of
the flight is fairly empty.

Passengers are scattered around
the jumbo jet's 400 seats.

After takeoff, the
bomber is able to move.

He chooses seat 26K, which
is directly over the fuel

tank in some 747s.

The cabin is tended by
stewardess Maria De La Cruz.

She flies domestic routes
and has worked for Philippine

Airlines for one year.

Can I get you some
juice or coffee?

Juice, please.

BILL RATNER: Now
the bomber must

find a vacant lavatory to
assemble the explosive device.

Arming the bomb only
takes minutes but requires

total concentration.

The final step is
setting the timer,

so it will explode
in four hours' time,

long after he leaves the plane.

He hides the bomb in
the life jacket pocket

underneath his seat.

He then changes seats.

When she returns,
Maria De La Cruz

notices that the
roving passenger

has moved seats again.

She will remember that he
left his breakfast untouched

and that the rest of the
flight passed uneventfully.

As Philippine Airlines Flight
434 begins its final approach

into Cebu, more
passengers are getting

ready to board
the aircraft that

will take them on to Tokyo.

ED REYES (ON SPEAKER): Cabin
crew, prepare for landing.

Cabin doors to automatic.

BILL RATNER: PAL434 lands in
Cebu at 6:50 AM, and several

of the passengers
disembark, including

the terrorist with the
alias Arnaldo Forlani.

Bye-bye.

Thank you.

BILL RATNER: Maria De La Cruz
will also leave Flight 434.

A new cabin crew will take over
for the four-and-a-half-hour

flight to Tokyo.

256 new passengers board the
747 that arrived from Manila.

Many of the passengers in
this cabin are Japanese.

Among them is 24-year-old
engineer Haruki Ikegami.

He is looking forward
to getting home to Tokyo

after his first trip overseas.

Airport congestion delays
the departure by 38 minutes,

but the timer on the bomb under
seat 26K continues to tick.

8:30 AM, December 11, 1994.

All passengers for Philippine
Airlines Flight 434

are now on board for
the leg to Tokyo.

None of them is
aware that two hours

earlier, a terrorist
planted a time

bomb under one of their seats.

Steward Fernando
Bayot is assisting

passengers in the
forward cabin on this

four-and-a-half-hour flight.

At 8:38 AM, PAL434 is
cleared for takeoff.

On the flight deck,
Captain Ed Reyes

is assisted by First Officer
Jaime Herrera and Systems

Engineer Dexter Comendador.

Reyes and Comendador are
both former Air Force pilots.

Haruki Ikegami
is seated in 26K,

the seat occupied by
the bomber earlier

on the first leg of Flight
434 from Manila to Cebu.

Several passengers
in this cabin

are coworkers traveling with
the Japanese tour group,

including Keisuke Aoki
and Masaharu Mochizuki.

INTERPRETER: After takeoff,
everything seemed normal.

We were flying
at 10,000 meters.

I was reading a magazine.

Then the meal was served.

After eating, I went to sleep.

BILL RATNER: 31-year-old
Yukihiko Osui stayed up all

night in the last
day of his trip,

and he's ready to
nap after breakfast.

He's sitting in row 27, one
row behind the seat vacated by

the bomber four hours earlier.

ED REYES (ON SPEAKER):
Ladies and gentlemen,

this is your captain speaking.

It's a beautiful day in
Tokyo, sunny and 26 degrees.

I expect we'll be
landing at Narita

Airport in two hours' time.

BILL RATNER: Two hours
into the flight, PAL434

is cruising on autopilot
33,000 feet above Minami

Daito Island, Southern Japan.

To ease the pilot's
workload, the autopilot

remains on throughout
the flight,

keeping the aircraft on a
constant heading and altitude.

God forgive me.

That was my inner
thought, you know.

God forgive me.

I think I'm going to die now.

Then after that, I had
to do what I had to do.

Oh, I've lost control.

I have control.

Dex, check the
pressurization loss.

Be prepared.

Taking QRH for rapid--

BILL RATNER: Although
the autopilot instantly

correct the aircraft's
bank to the right,

the effect of the
blast is far from over.

INTERPRETER: There was a
loud bang, which woke me up.

I could feel the plane
expanding from the pressure.

I saw smoke as well as
debris falling like powder.

Ladies and gentlemen,
please stay in your seat.

INTERPRETER: The
injured people were

trying to get away from the
area where the bomb was.

FERNANDO BAYOT:
Please sit down!

INTERPRETER: I stood up and
saw that a lot of people

were bleeding.

I thought my life was over.

FERNANDO BAYOT: Stay
in your seats, please.

BILL RATNER: The cabin
crew's first priority

is to stop passengers
from leaving their seats.

Yukihiko Osui is
sitting in the row

directly behind the explosion.

Both his legs are
badly wounded.

Steward Fernando Bayot moves
him away from the blast site.

FERNANDO BAYOT: Get
me some blankets here.

Please sit down and
fasten your seatbelt!

BILL RATNER: Bayot now
turns his attention

to Haruki Ikegami.

He has been swallowed
by the smoking hole

where seat 26k used to be.

FERNANDO BAYOT: I saw this man.

Only his head and his arms
were peering out of the hole,

so I tried to pull him out.

BILL RATNER: After the
struggle to lift him out,

Bayot realizes that part of the
lower half of Ikegami's body

is missing.

Within a couple of
minutes, he dies.

The cabin crew does
not want Ikegami's

death to panic
passengers, so they

pretend to minister to him.

Bayot then reports
to the captain.

Oh, Captain?

OK?

Keep the passengers calm.

Make sure they stay
in their seats.

There's been an
explosion in row

26, one dead, and
several injured,

and the cabin's full of smoke.

There's a hole in the floor.

Go inspect the damage, Dex.

DEXTER COMENDADOR: Yes, sir.

BILL RATNER: Reyes's
first concern

is that the blast could make
a hole in the aircraft skin.

This would lead to sudden
depressurization in the cabin

and require an
emergency descent.

DEXTER COMENDADOR: There was
a huge gaping hole beside her,

and if a small tear in the
skin of the aircraft was--

if there were a hole
there, it most probably

would open up and then pull
us out of the aircraft.

When I saw that there was
no damage to the outer skin,

I went up and reported
to the captain, well,

we assumed that
the pressurization

system would hold.

BILL RATNER: Immediately
after the explosion,

the copilot's steering
wheel slams to the right,

and the aircraft banks
in the same direction.

The autopilot immediately
corrects the deviation,

but soon, Reyes discovers
that the autopilot steering

system is another
victim of the blast.

Then I said, OK,
I'm going to try

to turn the airplane
using the autopilot,

but there was no reaction.

Whether I tried to
make it go down or up

or left and right
turns, no reaction.

I said, now we have a problem.

BILL RATNER: This is not
Reyes's only problem.

In the cabin, one of
the injured passengers

needs urgent medical attention.

Tokyo is still two
and a half hours away,

and Reyes decides
to try landing

at Naha Airport on the island
of Okinawa, some 40 miles

to the west.

He orders the copilot
to make a mayday call.

Yes, sir.

Naha, PAL434, heavy
declaring emergency.

Explosion on board.

We have casualties.

Requesting emergency
landing at Naha.

We will need pull emergency
services on landing.

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL (ON
RADIO): PAL434, Naha.

Please repeat.

Say again.

BILL RATNER: Getting
the Japanese Air

traffic controller to
understand the emergency

proves difficult.

Bravo Oscar Mike
Bravo, bomb explosion.

Request emergency
landing at Naha.

And they were silent.

Then the controller came
in, another controller,

an American.

OK, Philippine 434,
I'm taking over.

BILL RATNER: The
American air traffic

controller is from an
American base in Okinawa.

DEXTER COMENDADOR:
Turn left heading.

No, I shot back.

We cannot turn at
this moment yet.

We will tell you when we are
starting to turn towards Naha.

We have problems with
our flight controls.

Ladies and gentlemen, this
is your captain speaking.

We'll be making
an early landing

at Naha Airport in Okinawa.

We'll be landing as
soon as possible,

so please remain in your seat
with your seatbelt fastened.

BILL RATNER: But landing at
Naha is easier said than done.

The autopilot is not responding
to any of Reyes's commands,

and PAL434 is heading
straight past Okinawa.

Reyes must find a way to
steer if he is to have

any chance of landing safely.

Ugh, I'm not getting any--

BILL RATNER: But
disengaging the autopilot

might result in losing
what minimal control he

still has over the aircraft.

It seems the autopilot
won't react to any inputs

that I make.

I was scared if I
disengaged the autopilot,

the aircraft might make a
sudden, bang to the right

that we might not
be able to control.

On the count of
three, I'll disengage.

1, 2, 3.

1, 2, 3, turn.

Nothing happened.

And then there was--

we were relieved.

I can't turn
using the controls.

Looks like the explosion
jammed the aileron.

Dex, what does the QRH
say about jammed ailerons?

BILL RATNER: The QRH, or
Quick Reference Handbook,

is the pilot's bible
that lists procedures

that must be followed
in emergency situations.

Jammed flight controls--
use maximum force possible,

including both
pilots if required.

OK.

Let's force it.

BILL RATNER: Captain
Reyes tries brute force

to activate the ailerons,
the panels on each wing

which turn the aircraft.

Since the explosion, he
can only fly straight.

I'm not getting anything
from that ailerons.

Can't get off this heading.

OK, re-engage the autopilot
while I work out our options.

BILL RATNER: It's
taking much longer

to land than was announced.

Although they
survived the bombing,

passengers are now
anxious about landing

safely at Naha Airport.

KEISUKE AOKI:

INTERPRETER: Since there was
so much time before landing,

I started writing a will.

I wrote the will to my son,
telling him to be strong.

BILL RATNER: As
PAL434 looks like it

will miss Naha Airport, Reyes
comes up with another plan.

We got to turn.

We'll have to use
differential power.

Disengage autothrottle.

Pull back 3 and 4.

BILL RATNER: Captain
Reyes increases

thrust to the engines on the
left-hand side of the plane

and reduces power to the
engines on the right.

Very slowly, the aircraft
starts to circle right.

He then lowers his speed to
make a similar radius turn.

With guidance from
air traffic control,

Reyes hopes that the
maneuver will eventually

line up with a runway at Naha.

ED REYES (VOICEOVER): So
while we were descending

on low speed, I tried to
test the flight controls,

and there are-- there are
some little reactions.

The elevator is
beginning to respond.

Dex, .

BILL RATNER: The elevator
is a control that makes

the plane ascend and descend.

ED REYES: 250 knots,
flaps 1 on speed.

BILL RATNER: In
order to land safely,

Reyes will need at
least minimal control

over the elevator and rudder.

Flaps 5.

BILL RATNER: As
PAL434 nears Naha,

he continues to
reduce his airspeed.

Flaps 10 set, speed 225.

OK, she's turning.

JAIME HERRERA: Sir, if
we reduce our weight,

we will be able to reduce our
approaching landing speeds.

I suggest we dump fuel.

ED REYES:

BILL RATNER: Reyes orders
the systems engineer

to dump 36 tons of fuel.

ED REYES: Five
minutes, 20,000 pounds.

BILL RATNER: Less fuel
means less strain on landing

gear and brakes at touchdown.

check.

INTERPRETER: I was terrified
when I saw the smoke

trail behind each wing.

And I thought something
must be burning,

and there would be
another explosion.

BILL RATNER: As
touchdown gets closer,

Reyes worries that the bomb
may have done more yet unknown

damage to the aircraft.

ED REYES: I'm not certain our
landing gear will hold up.

Strap yourself in.

I'll increase the pressure.

DEXTER COMENDADOR: So he talked
to the head of the cabin crew,

and he said, we're not sure
if the gears will go down.

And in case the gears
collapse while landing,

be ready to evacuate.

It's either you-- you
make it, or you die.

And that's because you
cannot do anything anymore.

Runway in sight.

BILL RATNER: With only minimal
control over the aircraft,

Reyes faces the
most challenging

landing of his career.

As PAL434 starts
its final approach,

the 292 people on
board are pinning

their hopes of survival on
the skill of the cockpit crew.

I know all
everybody was scared.

We are-- we are all scared.

I know that.

Gear down.

DEXTER COMENDADOR: The
gears were supposed

to come down a few
seconds, but that

was the longest second that--

because we were waiting
for the greens to come on.

Yeah.
Take a long time, you know?

It took a long time.

It was a long few seconds
until it-- when it locked.

ED REYES: Yeah.

Three greens, sir.

OK.

I'm disconnecting the autopilot
and landing manually, OK, Dex?

Monitor my descent rate.

Call altitude and speed.

Flaps 30.

OK, 500 feet on course.

DEXTER COMENDADOR:
Flaps 30 set.

Help me with the elevator.

When I say push, I
want you to push.

OK, 200, slightly left.

ED REYES: Correcting.

Push.

100, 50, 30.

OK, power off.

Pull!

Your last--

Touch down.

--command was, "Pull!"

Yeah, my last
command was, "Pull!"

ED REYES: OK.

Ladies and gentlemen,
this is Captain speaking.

We'd like to thank you for your
cooperation and your patience.

Emergency crews
are on their way.

We'll try and get you out
of here as soon as possible.

Thank you.

BILL RATNER: The
Philippine Airlines

747 is now a crime scene
under Japanese jurisdiction.

As investigators from the
Okinawa Police Department

set out to solve the
mystery of what happened,

they turn their attention first
to the dead man in seat 26K.

The forensic
pathologist recovered

94 fragments embedded
in Haruki Ikegami's body

by the explosion.

He suffered severe internal
injuries and massive loss

of blood, but tragic as it was,
the effects of the explosion

could have been much worse.

Ikegami's body bore the
brunt of the upward blast,

but the explosion
severed the steel

cables in the
ceiling that control

the rudder and elevator.

The charge also severed
the copilot's control cable

to the right aileron, one of
the surfaces in the right wing

which make an aircraft
bank and turn.

The downward force blew
a hole in the floor

and could have ignited the
vapors in the center fuel

tank, creating a
catastrophic explosion,

but by chance, on December
11, seat 26K was not located

directly above the fuel tank.

Fortunately for us, we
took a different version,

the SAS version of
the 747 that day,

and that specific
seat for that version

was two seats forward
of the center tank.

BILL RATNER: The Okinawa
forensic investigators

immediately start collecting
evidence from the bomb site.

They begin with the
largest fragments of debris

and then systematically
work down

until the smallest
particles are

retrieved by vacuum cleaner.

Japanese investigators cannot
identify the bomb's detonator,

but by separating out
bits of metal, plastic,

and electrical wire that
do not belong to the plane,

components of the bomb
are pieced together.

One forensic investigator
is able to identify

the bomb's timer.

By reconstructing dozens
of burnt fragments,

he discovers it's a
modified digital wristwatch.

Investigators also
discover that one

of the bomb's
9-volt batteries is

only sold in the Philippines.

It is another clue that
suggests that the bomber

could be based there.

Philippine National
Police Deputy Chief

Sonny Razon is on the case.

SONNY RAZON: The
later part of 1994,

we already started to receive
information, intelligence

reports that there
were Middle Eastern

personalities that were here
already in the Philippines.

BILL RATNER: On the
night of January 6, 1995,

almost four weeks after
the bombing of PAL434,

the Philippine police
get a lucky break.

In his Manila apartment,
the PAL434 bomber

has enlisted the help
of an accomplice to mass

produce his new
undetectable bomb.

BILL RATNER: An attempt
to burn off chemicals

gets out of hand.

BILL RATNER:
Acrid-smelling smoke

spills out of the apartment.

It attracts the
attention of the doorman,

who comes to investigate.

Hey, hey, what's going on?

Sorry, sorry.

We were playing with some
fireworks, but it's OK.

We put them out, and we have
all the windows open inside.

And we keep the door closed.
It'll be fine, OK?

You open the door.

No, if we open the door,
the smoke come in the hallway.

We keep it closed.

It go out the window, OK?

It's OK.

It's OK.

BILL RATNER: Until
the smoke dissipates,

the bombers decide to wait
outside the apartment.

The doorman isn't
convinced by their playing

with fireworks story,
and he calls the fire

department and the police.

By the time the firemen
come, the smoke is gone,

and they leave
after a quick check.

The bomber now realizes he
has left a very sensitive item

in the apartment, and
he persuades his friend

to retrieve his laptop.

He was too clever a guy to
come back and expose himself

because all along,
he knew that that

would be too risky for him
to go back and be caught.

BILL RATNER: The
bomber's fear of getting

caught is justified.

Once Police Inspector Aida
Fariscal learns that they

are from Pakistan,
she insists on seeing

their room for herself.

The police in Manila
are on high alert

due to a planned visit by
the pope in a few days.

What Inspector Fariscal finds
confirms her worst fears about

the intentions of the tenants.

Hey, boss,

Get down.

You, stop!

BILL RATNER: The shot
distracts the apprentice,

and he trips over
a fallen palm tree.

BILL RATNER: But the cop
discovers he has no handcuffs.

The doorman improvises
with the drawstrings

of his windbreaker.

In the meantime,
the bomber vanishes.

One of the first
senior officers

to arrive at his
apartment is Sonny Razon.

SONNY RAZON: Incident at the
Doña Josefa apartment was

the breakthrough in opening
our eyes that the al-Qaeda

terrorist cell was
already operating

here in the Philippines.

BILL RATNER: The
Philippine National Police

know they have stumbled
onto something big,

and they inform Interpol,
Scotland Yard, and the FBI.

When news of the raid reaches
the Joint Terrorism Task Force

in New York, it
immediately grabs

the attention of FBI Special
Agent Frank Pellegrino.

For two years, he has
been hunting a terrorist

called Ramzi
Yousef, and it looks

as if this might be his man.

That's great.

Well, he was always
our focus in '93.

I mean, at the
time, that was the--

you know, he was the
biggest fugitive around.

BILL RATNER: As
Philippine police comb

through the
apartment, they begin

to find more
evidence tying Yousef

to the bombing of PAL434.

FRANK PELLEGRINO: There was a
similarity between the watches

that were found
in the apartment

and the type of watch
that was used in Okinawa.

Putting together
that-- that watch,

that was the watch that was on
the bomb on that Flight 434,

and identifying those pieces
eventually as a Casio watch,

you know, it was amazing.

BILL RATNER: Yousef
is a skilled forger.

Investigators find several
identification cards bearing

various names and
photos, in each of which

he looks quite different.

One ID card is of
particular interest.

FRANK PELLEGRINO: So almost
as a dig to us, this--

you know, the ID card
used the First World

Trade Center bombing
date as the date

that the card was issued.

So we knew right away it
was-- was Yousef that was--

had been in the apartment.

They knew chemicals.

The chemical dictionary
was a very well used item,

underlined,
highlighted, well read,

notations throughout
the book, something

that he used quite often.

And I don't remember
the exact number.

I think they might have been
hundreds latent prints found

on that that belonged to him.

BILL RATNER: The identification
of the bomber of PAL434

and the discovery
of his bomb factory

is very disturbing news for
those responsible for airline

passenger safety.

Ramzi Yousef is an
international terrorist

who knows how to get his bombs
past airport security, bombs

that are small but, if
strategically located,

can blow up a jumbo jet
and kill not just one

but hundreds of people.

And the bomber of PAL434
is still on the loose.

When Philippine
National Police discover

the hideout of a terrorist,
the FBI identifies him

as Ramzi Yousef.

Evidence that Arnaldo Forlani,
the man who planted the bomb

on PAL434, is the same
person as Ramzi Yousef

comes from the travel agent
who sold him the Philippine

Airlines ticket.

Ramzi Yousef is just one of
several aliases of a man who

tops the FBI's
most wanted list,

an international terrorist
with a $2 million

bounty on his head.

Yousef, whose real name is
probably Abdul Karim Basit,

was born and raised in
Kuwait, where his father

worked as an engineer.

It was there that he met the
friend he enlisted to help him

in the Manila bomb factory.

When he was 18,
Yousef's family returned

to their Pakistani homeland.

Yousef married and
had two children.

Soon after returning
home, his parents

sent him to study in Britain.

He was taking classes
both in engineering

and using the computer, so he
definitely had some talents.

BILL RATNER: On
his summer breaks

from college in the 1980s,
Yousef returns to Pakistan.

He puts his new
engineering skills

to use by teaching bomb making
to militants in training

camps near Peshawar, Pakistan.

The camps are fertile
ground for making contacts

with militants worldwide.

In September 1992, Yousef
flies from Pakistan to New York

to prepare for a major
terrorist attack.

On arrival at JFK, he
presents a fake Iraqi passport

and asks for political
asylum from Saddam Hussein.

The ploy works, and he's
allowed to enter the country.

Six months later on
February 26, 1993,

one of the largest homemade
bombs in American history

explodes in the garage below
the World Trade Center,

killing six people, injuring
hundreds, and causing

$500 million worth of damage.

That night, Yousef
is on a plane

back to his home in Pakistan.

He was an action figure.

He wanted to keep doing things.

He wasn't happy with
the one success he had.

BILL RATNER: 18 months after
the World Trade Center attack,

Yousef flies to
Manila to fine-tune

the bomb he plans on PAL434.

According to Sonny Razon, the
Philippine capital suits him.

Ramzi Yousef
loved to enjoy life.

He was a-- he is a ladies man.

He associated himself
with a lot of girlfriends,

and he liked to party.

He also drank a lot, tea,
and he enjoyed the life.

Terrorists-- they are your
normal day-to-day people,

the guy next door.

BILL RATNER: After
the bombing of PAL434,

Yousef arranges for his
childhood friend Abdul Hakim

Murad to assist him in Manila,
but on January 6, 1995, two

weeks after his
arrival, Murad is

arrested and sent to
Philippine police headquarters

for interrogation.

It took 67 days to
extract the details of how

Yousef planted the bomb.

SONNY RAZON: My
impressions of him

was that he was strong willed.

He was determined.

Initially, he did not
break down in questioning,

and it was only when the FBI
team that came in and provided

us with additional information
or pieces of the puzzle

that we did not have
that he started to talk.

BILL RATNER: Tiny chemical
traces of the explosive

were found on PAL434, and Murad
eventually admits that Yousef

uses liquid
nitroglycerin that he

stabilized and
concealed in a bottle

of contact lens solution.

Murad also reveals
that Yousef hid

the bomb's
potentially suspicious

electronic components
in the heel of his shoe.

Most airport security
systems only detect

metal well above the ankles.

FRANK PELLEGRINO: I bet you
he was cool as could be.

He was somewhat cavalier in
his attitude toward these

explosives and
chemicals, to carry

a container of nitroglycerin
on an-- on an airplane and--

you know, maybe a little nuts.

BILL RATNER: Murad's confession
provides details of Yousef's

actions after he successfully
got the bomb components

through airport security.

Can I get you some
juice or coffee?

Juice, please.

BILL RATNER: Yousef
designed the device

so the innocent
looking components

can be quickly transformed
into a lethal bomb.

He has modified a
digital wristwatch

as the bomb's timer.

This is wired to a
detonator inside the bottle

of nitroglycerin.

Two 9-volt batteries provide
an additional electric charge

to the exposed filament
of a light bulb

that will spark the explosion.

Yousef sets the alarm
for four hours later,

when he anticipates the
plane will be flying

high over the Pacific Ocean.

He plants the bomb in a life
jacket pouch under his seat,

a place ground crews
are unlikely to inspect

during the stopover in Cebu.

Soon after, he gets off
the plane and disappears.

Four hours later, the
time bomb under seat 26K

awakens the airline industry
to a new kind of terrorism.

Murad's confession confirms
Pellegrino's suspicions.

This is just the kind
of sophisticated plot

he's come to expect
from Ramzi Yousef,

but Pellegrino is still shocked
by what Murad says next.

PAL434 was only a test, a
dry run for a much larger

terrorist plot that
will kill thousands

of airline passengers.

While international terrorist
Ramzi Yousef continues

to evade capture, the FBI
searches for his next intended

bombing targets.

FBI investigators find
evidence of Yousef's

meticulous planning
in secret files

on the laptop he so
desperately wanted

his accomplice to retrieve.

FRANK PELLEGRINO: On the laptop
computer found in the Josefa

apartment building was a file
which laid out a plan for five

individuals using code names,
individuals not mentioned

on the plan, to board
about three planes each,

two planes-- a couple of
people have three planes--

planting bombs on the planes,
and then returning back

to their home, hoping when
they planted the bombs

and with the timing devices,
if everything went well,

all bombs would go off within
about a six-hour time period.

Any more than one
would have been--

been an airline
disaster, so you know,

if they were 50%
successful in their plan,

I think it would have scared a
lot of people for a long time.

BILL RATNER: The file
on Yousef's laptop

reveals that the plan,
codenamed Bojinka,

is foiled with
no time to spare.

The bombing of 12
American planes

is meant to kill
4,000 passengers.

Yousef's campaign of
terror is scheduled

to start less than two
weeks after the bust

of his bomb factory in Manila.

By the time Pellegrino
and the FBI team

arrive in the Philippines,
Yousef is long gone.

So it was a worry, and it
was a missed opportunity.

But we-- we also--

on a lot of these
fugitive-type cases, you know,

we're all not that different,
and everybody goes home.

Everybody needs to go home, and
so the investigation, again,

would focus back to Pakistan.

BILL RATNER: The FBI
immediately begins a publicity

campaign in Pakistan,
promoting their $2 million

reward for assistance
in arresting Yousef.

The strategy works.

Yousef's latest recruit for
yet another airline bombing

blows the whistle.

On the day Yousef is due to
leave his hotel in Islamabad,

a Pakistani SWAT team moves in.

BILL RATNER: In Yousef's room
are Delta and United Airlines

flight schedules as
well as bomb components

hidden in children's toys.

What do you want?

Who are you?

Do you have a warrant?
Huh?

BILL RATNER: The informer
receives a $2 million

bounty for the-tip
off that prevents

another airline attack.

FRANK PELLEGRINO:
He was shocked,

did not think he would be--

he would be caught.

He had a certain
confidence about him,

and I didn't think he thought
we'd ever catch up to him.

BILL RATNER: Within
hours of his capture,

Yousef is extradited
from Pakistan

and put on a waiting
US government plane.

With the cooperation of
the Japanese and Philippine

governments, the FBI
arranged for Yousef

to stand trial in New York
City for the PAL434 bombing

as well as the
earlier 1993 attack

on the World Trade Center.

REPORTER (VOICEOVER): In a
convoy of federal and local

patrol cars, Ramzi
Ahmed Yousef was brought

into New York City
late Wednesday

night, ending a
worldwide manhunt.

He was arrested
Tuesday in Pakistan

by Pakistani
authorities and brought

back by the FBI on
a US plane, then

into custody with
heavy security

on the street in case
of any terrorist attacks

prompted by his arrest.

BILL RATNER: At his trial
a year later in New York's

Southern District
Court, Yousef decides

to handle his own defense
against the advice

of the judge.

--and so-called
economic embargoes, which

kills no one other than--

BILL RATNER: He performs
better than expected.

--children and
elderly people--

BILL RATNER: But he is found
guilty on all charges related

to the bombing of PAL434
and conspiring to bomb

12 American passenger planes.

Yousef is also found guilty in
a second trial for the World

Trade Center bombing.

The government in
it's summations--

BILL RATNER: In his
final summing up,

Yousef justifies his actions.

Yes, I am a terrorist
and proud of it,

and I only support
terrorism so long

as it's against the
United States government

and against Israel, because
you are more than terrorists.

BILL RATNER:
Although Pakistani,

Yousef describes himself
as Palestinian by choice.

and
using it every day.

BILL RATNER: And he
justifies the PAL434--

BILL RATNER: --and World Trade
Center bombings as punishment

for a US foreign policy--
-

BILL RATNER: --that favors
Israel over Palestine.

--and hypocrites.

BILL RATNER: For both
crimes, he is sentenced

to 240 years in prison.

The judge recommends
solitary confinement

for life in the most secure
prison in the United States,

located in Florence, Colorado.

It houses the country's
most violent and dangerous

prisoners, and it's
where Yousef will spend

the rest of his life
confined in a cell

for 23 out of every 24 hours.

In the year following
Yousef's attack on PAL434,

the Federal Aviation
Administration

certified a machine
to detect explosives.

Not one American
carrier bought it.

Only after 9/11 was a law
passed that required US

airports to deploy
explosive detection systems,

but the most reliable models
are expensive or too slow

and still not widely employed.

Well, what's the old saying?

You know, we have to be
right 100% of the time.

Terrorist only has
to be right once.

BILL RATNER: Although
there hasn't been

a successful airline
bombing since PAL434,

those who forget the past may
be destined to revisit it.