FBI joins US navy to free ship’s captain
A US destroyer and a spy plane kept close watch in the high-seas standoff near the Horn of Africa.
The pirates took Capt Richard Phillips hostage on Wednesday after they hijacked the US-flagged Maersk Alabama, but the cargo ship’s crew overpowered them and at least four then fled to a covered lifeboat. It was the first such attack on American sailors in about 200 years.
