Investigations might show he was a sick man

Investigations might show he was a sick man."Cockpits are locked only during take-off and landing. Paul Parry, of British Airways, said an inquiry into the incident would study whether present procedures were adequate.Flight 2069 was five and a half hours into the overnight journey, cruising 35,000 feet over Khartoum, with the cabin in darkness and only the background hum of the engines and an odd restless child to disturb the peace.While most of the 398 passengers were asleep or watching the in-flight film, Jemima Khan, wife of the Pakistani cricketer and daughter of the late Sir James Goldsmith, was playing with her two young sons, Sulaiman and Kasim, on her lap. Her mother and brother Benjamin sat near by.A few rows away the singer Bryan Ferry and his wife, Lucy Helmore, were also resting among the other passengers bound for Nairobi from Gatwick.Suddenly the 747 jumbo jet dived violently, hurling passengers from their seats. Luggage rained down on them from the overhead lockers.As the passengers screamed, the 53-year-old captain, William Hagan, and his two First Officers, Richard Webb and Phil Watson, were battling in the upper flight deck with a hysterical passenger intent on taking control of the aircraft.The aircraft began to roll out of control when the automatic pilot was disengaged in the struggle.The attacker, a 27-year-old Kenyan man, said to be suicidal, had broken into the cockpit without warning and taken the crew by surprise.Knowing they had only seconds to regain control of the flight and save the lives of almost 400 people, Mr Hagan and Mr Webb, 35, fought desperately to overcome their assailant while Mr Watson struggled to reach the controls.A passenger, Gordon Owles, said: "The plane started to judder and made a horrific garaunching sound which went on for what felt like eternity."The plane started to lurch left to right, left to right, which got increasingly worse."The plane then shuddered violently before banking to the left and diving for a second time. The cabin lights went out and oxygen masks automatically dropped down in front of terrified passengers.Zoe McNaughton, 19, a student from Kent, said: "Stuff was flying around, we thought the plane was going to fall Some people hurt their heads.

I thought we were going to die."Patrick Robertson, a friend of Lady Annabel Goldsmith and her family, said: "It was frightening and that serious."Cabin staff rushed to the cockpit and aided by a 6ft 6in American businessman they forced their way in to help the flight crew drag the attacker away from the controls.The fight spilt out in front of the 32 passengers on the upper Club Class deck, including Mr Ferry and the pilot's own wife and two children.Eventually the man was subdued and crew regained control of the flight.Captain Hagan, "breathless" and with bite wounds to his ear and finger, emerged to reassure his own family and other passengers.The 20-year-old Benjamin Goldsmith said: "He said four or five seconds more and the co-pilot wouldn't have been able to retain control because the thing was about to go on to its back." In a brief two minutes, the plane had plummeted 10,000 feet.Doctor Todd Angstrom, 41, from Oregon, who was travelling with his wife and two young daughters, described the whole incident as "like a rollercoaster"."The pilot came on, saying, 'I am here to inform you that we had a madman who tried to take control of the plane and bring it down to commit suicide'."For 30 seconds the flight was engulfed in stunned silence, before relief and realisation of what could have happened took over Ms McNaughton said: "People were quite upset. There were a lot of tears, a lot of crying."Others nursed their wounds, several suffering from concussion after being thrown about the plane.The assailant, who suffered an eye injury in the struggle, was subdued and held at the back of the plane for the last two hours of the flight, which landed safely at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport shortly after 10am Nairobi time (7am GMT).Kenyan police boarded the plane and arrested him before escorting him to Nairobi Hospital. The man - described as a suspected mental patient - remained under sedation as investigating officers tried to discover what had driven him to such a terrifying act.A stewardess had to be admitted to hospital with a broken ankle, while two male and two female passengers were treated for minor injuries.Others stunned passengers emerged either to return to their homes or begin holidays.The Goldsmith family, who were on their way to a 10-day safari holiday, transferred straight on to an internal flight after insisting that they considered themselves "very, very lucky to have survived".Jemima Khan and her children were joined by Imran Khan, who flew in from Lahore, Pakistan.A friend, Umar Farooq, said: "He will be very relieved they have survived this terrible flight. Jemima is very scared of flying and doesn't like it at all."Captain Hagan, from Glasgow, praised his first officers and insisted with considerable understatement: "We just did what we are trained to do."The question remained, however, as to how somehow could so easily jeopardise the lives of a packed flight.British Airways said it would be examining procedures while the British Airline Pilots Association said the incident would be discussed at the next government committee dealing with air rage.Aviation experts appeared sceptical about what action could be taken to guard the cockpit from invasion by a determined passenger.

Kieran Daly, editor of Air Transport Intelligence, said: "Short of flying security and armed guards around, there is only so much you can do.". A British aid worker named as Charlotte Wilson was among up to 20 people massacred by rebels in Burundi after the commuter bus they were travelling in was ambushed near the country's capital, Bujumbura, on Thursday afternoon. A British aid worker named as Charlotte Wilson was among up to 20 people massacred by rebels in Burundi after the commuter bus they were travelling in was ambushed near the country's capital, Bujumbura, on Thursday afternoon. Ms Wilson, 27, a teacher with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), is understood to have been travelling from Rwanda, where she worked, to Bujumbura.Witnesses described a scene of mayhem, with glass and bloodstained bags of clothes and belongings strewn across the road at Kilima, about 19 miles north-east of Bujumbura close to the town of Kinama. They found the victims' bodies, including that of a white woman, understood to be Ms Wilson, on a lorry. Passengers were dragged out of the bus and executed by the roadside.

A truck and a car were also attacked by the ambushers.One of about eight survivors, who would not give his name, said that after being injured in the back by gunshot, he had escaped into the bush. "The driver was shot and the bus crashed into the ditch, then the rebels ordered passengers to come out and executed them one by one," he said.The British embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, which also covers Burundi, said it could not immediately confirm Ms Wilson's identity. She had a Rwandan boyfriend, but whether he was with her on the bus was not known.A Rwandan woman, identified as Cadeau, said: "We were asked to lie down on the concrete road. When they voiced their intention to kill us, I began begging them to spare my life and my child's." One of the rebels came over to her and ordered her to run, she said.Ms Wilson, who had a PhD in molecular microbiology, was regarded as one of the brightest volunteers VSO had sent to Africa. Her work as a science teacher at Shyogwe secondary school, had been so successful that the Rwandan minister of education asked her to develop a science curriculum for the entire secondary school system.Ms Wilson, one of 56 VSO volunteers working in the country, had been in Rwanda since September 1999. She was due to complete her VSO placement in June 2001.Penny Lawrence, VSO's Director of Overseas Operations, who met Ms Wilson in Rwanda in 1999, said: "Her students responded to her infectious enthusiasm for her subject, but her talent was also recognised at the highest level. Colleagues and friends of Charlotte are devastated by the news."The attack is believed to have been the work of Hutu rebels who are under pressure to sign a peace agreement with the Tutsi-led army and government.