In August, 2004, two passenger planes fell out of the sky within three minutes of each other, killing eighty-nine people. It turned out that they were downed by

In August, 2004, two passenger planes fell out of the sky within three minutes of each other, killing eighty-nine people. It turned out that they were downed by two female suicide bombers who had bribed an airport security officer with five thousand rubles—around a hundred and seventy dollars—to let them onto the planes. </quote> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_ioffe?currentPage=all http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_... from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2508107 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2508107