Moussaoui was arrested in Minnesota on immigration charges a month before the September 11 attacks after he aroused suspicion by trying to buy time on a jumbo jet flight simulator at a flight school.

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He was arrested in the United States in August after he aroused suspicion by trying to buy time on a jumbo jet flight simulator.

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Orbital Sciences survived by developing a new rocket launched from a far more reliable platform, a jumbo jet.

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As soon as Airbus announced it was to embark on a project to develop the first "super" jumbo in 2001, it received an order for a private variant of the jet (then known by its codename of A3XX) from a client in the Middle East.

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