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A Captain who was flying with an assigned altitude of 10,000 feet while being vectored for a landing on runway 27L thought he heard the copilot say Cleared to seven, took this to mean Cleared to seven thousand feet, and started to descend.
Lacking a target, they were vectored toward military-controlled airspace off the Long Island coast.
Reagan National controllers then vectored an unarmed National Guard C- 130H cargo aircraft, which had just taken off en route to Minnesota, to identify and follow the suspicious aircraft.
A malaria vaccine called ME-TRAP, which targets the pre-erythrocytic stage of the disease, was not effective at reducing natural infection rates in semi-immune African adults, according to the report of a randomized controlled trial published this month in PLoS Medicine . “This first field efficacy trial was an important milestone in the progression of new recombinant vectored vaccines to deployable products,” says Adrian Hill (University of Oxford, United Kingdom), the lead investigator of the study.
They assumed the fighter escort would be discreet, "vectored to a position five miles directly behind the hijacked aircraft," where it could perform its mission to monitor the aircraft's flight path.