AN Aer Lingus aircraft with 340 people on board narrowly avoided a fatal collision during take-off because of a mistake by an air traffic controller, an official investigation has revealed.

Suicide pilot Mohamed Atta, who crashed the first airliner into New York’s World Trade Centre, left a will barring women from his funeral and asking mourners to

As rescue workers today continued to search the carnage in New York and Washington, the investigation to hunt down the men behind the world’s worst terrorist outrage began in earnest.