Terror

(08.10.2006)--(names cq'd)--Sarah Beeson, 20, (left) receives a hug from her mother, Debbie Beeson, both from Thomasville, FL, after Sarah's flight arrived at the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport from London's Gatwick International Airport on Thursday, August 10, 2006. British authorities said they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage, averting what police described as a mass murder on an unimaginable scale. --Yalonda M. James/The Charlotte Observer --yjames@charlotteobserver.com