Terror on Qantas flight as man tries to open door during landingAugust 26th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A man allegedly caused terror on a Qantas flight by trying to open the door of the plane, while it was coming in for landing into Sydney. An eyewitness, who was about two rows away, said that the man was clearly agitated, and had been trying to stand up and move around the plane for about ten minutes during the descent, before reaching for the door handle.
Baby crocodile causes panic, seized at Abu Dhabi airportAugust 1st, 2009 ABU DHABI - A baby crocodile was seized from an Egypt Air flight after its cabin crew alerted the airport officials when the plane landed here, WAM news agency reported Saturday. The flight was from Cairo to the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) capital.
Two killed as small plane crashes in USJuly 19th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - A small plane crashed in Santa Clarita near Los Angeles Saturday, killing two people on board, authorities said. The plane crashed in the middle of a street at noon, said Brendon Peart of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Iranian passenger plane crashes, all feared dead: Report (Second Lead)July 15th, 2009 TEHRAN - An Iranian passenger plane crashed Wednesday near the country's northwestern city of Qazvin and all 150 people on board were feared killed, Press TV reported. The Russian-made Tupolev plane went down near the Jannatabad village near Qazvin at 11.33 a.m.
Another US airplane survives air scare after a football sized hole was discovered midwayJuly 14th, 2009 CHARLESTON - A Southwest Airlines plane with 131 people on board made an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia Monday after a hole appeared in the fuselage. No one was injured in the incident on the flight from Nashville to Baltimore, a spokeswoman for the airline told CNN.
Aircraft passenger saves holidaymakers from flight delay fixing technical faultJuly 7th, 2009 LONDON - Holidaymakers aboard a Thomas Cook plane were saved from a flight delay when their plane developed a fault, as a passenger among them turned out to be an aircraft engineer and fixed the problem. The captain of the Thomas Cook flight TCX964L from Menorca to Glasgow had announced that they were delayed because of a technical fault.
Air France crash plane not destroyed in flight: OfficialJuly 2nd, 2009 PARIS - The Air France Airbus A330-200 that crashed into the Atlantic one month ago was not destroyed in flight, an official with the French Office of Accident Investigation (BEA) said Thursday at Le Bourget airport near Paris. Alain Bouillard, who is in charge of the investigation, said an analysis of the fragments of the plane that have been recovered suggests that "the plane seems to have hit the surface of the water in the line of flight with a strong vertical acceleration".
Naked passenger forces US plane to landJuly 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A 50-year-old man on board a US Airways jet en route to Los Angeles has been arrested after he stripped naked and ran around, forcing the plane to divert and land in Albuquerque, according to media reports Thursday. Keith Anthony Wright, a resident of New York, was being held in federal detention in New Mexico pending his appearance in court on charges of interference with a flight, FBI spokesman Darrin Jones was quoted as saying by the Los Angeles Times.
Brazil ends search for victims of Air France flightJune 27th, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO - The Brazilian air force and navy have ended their search for survivors of Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic nearly four weeks ago, officials announced Saturday. "The mission has been stopped, because it has become impossible to find bodies or debris in the search area," said Lt.
US passenger plane lands safely after pilot diesJune 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Continental airlines pilot died at the controls of a plane en route from Brussels to Newark, New Jersey. The two first officers onboard, who have extensive experience flying the Boeing 777, landed the plane Thursday with 247 passengers on board in Newark, according to broadcast images.
Pilot dies at controls of US-bound passenger jetJune 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Continental airlines pilot died at the controls of a plane en route from Brussels to Newark, New Jersey, Thursday, according to media reports. CNN quoted a statement from Continental that the 61-year-old captain of the flight died of natural causes while piloting the plane carrying 247 passengers.
Woman, who missed ill-fated Air France Flight, dies in car accident days laterJune 12th, 2009 LONDON - An Italian woman, who arrived late for the Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic, was not so lucky after all. She has been killed in a car accident in Austria.
US plane makes emergency landing in CanadaJune 10th, 2009 HALIFAX - An American Airlines plane with 206 people on board made an emergency landing in Canada because of a fire in a toilet, a television channel reported. The Boeing 767-300 was flying from New York to Zurich Tuesday evening when smoke started to pour out of a toilet into the passenger cabin, CTV said.
Three more bodies recovered in Air France crash (Second Lead)June 7th, 2009 PARIS/SAO PAULO - The Brazilian Air Force said Sunday that three more bodies from the Air France Airbus plane crash had been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean. An air force spokesman in Recife announced the find, coming a day after the first two bodies - those of two male passengers - had been recovered.
Air France plane may have been bombed, says pilotJune 4th, 2009 PARIS - An Air France pilot has declared it "highly likely" that flight AF447 may have been blown up by a terrorist bomb. The long-haul captain, speaking on condition of anonymity, dismissed the theory the doomed jet suffered catastrophic electrical failure.
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