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As plane nearly rolled over, crew destroyed secrets
HONOLULU -- The returning crew of a U.S. Navy spy plane, touching down in the United States after 11 days in Chinese detention, Thursday gave their families heart-stopping accounts of how they nearly ditched their plane in the South China Sea after colliding with a Chinese jet fighter.

Pilot is credited with saving crew
When Shane Osborn was in high school, he knew that his football coach, Dan McLaughlin, had been in the Air Force. Intensely interested in aviation, Osborn peppered McLaughlin with questions about his experience.

The size of a laptop, videophone gives CNN exclusive China video
It was a piece of equipment the size of a laptop computer.

How to keep execution video private
WASHINGTON -- Via closed-circuit video, about 250 survivors and victims' relatives of the Oklahoma City bombing will get their wish: to see Timothy McVeigh die.

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