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SC man battles hijacker on Nairobi bound flight
Clarke Bynum, a 39 year old former Clemson basketball player from Sumter South Carolina, rushed the cockpit on a London to Nairobi flight after a 27 year old Kenyan hijacker tried to crash the Boeing 747. Bynum helped subdue the attacker as passengers endured a violent nosedive and a 19 000 foot plunge.
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