Plane slides off runway on Thai holiday island, one dead

September 14th, 2009 Report blames pilot for deadly Ark. plane crashLITTLE ROCK, Ark.

September 12th, 2009 MUMBAI - A Delhi-Mumbai Air India flight had a narrow escape when a dog was sighted on the main runway as the aircraft was preparing to land here Saturday evening, officials said. The incident occurred around 6.30 p.m.

September 9th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Three unidentified attackers hijacked a passenger plane in Mexico Wednesday and threatened to detonate a bomb. The attackers - reportedly three men - demanded to talk with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Mexican radio reported.

August 5th, 2009 Plane engine catches fire in Paris, 8 injuredPARIS — Panicked passengers scrambled and pushed to the emergency exits of an Airbus 320 preparing to carry 165 passengers from Paris to a vacation city in Spain after an engine suddenly caught fire Wednesday, a passenger said. Eight passengers had chafed skin from using the emergency exit slides and were treated by airport personnel after the incident at Orly airport, Vueling airline and French police said.

August 5th, 2009 Paris-Spain flight catches fire, several injured PARIS — The Paris Airports authority says the engine of an Airbus 320 of the low-cost carrier Vueling on its way to Alicante in southeastern Spain has caught fire and that several people have been slightly injured. An official at Paris Airports says the passengers were injured as they tried to exit the plane down the emergency slides.

August 4th, 2009 Plane hits control tower at Thai airport, 1 killedBANGKOK — A passenger plane skidded off the runway and crashed into a building after landing on the Thai resort island of Samui on Tuesday, killing the chief pilot and injuring at least seven people including foreign tourists. The Bangkok Airways flight landed in stormy weather and hit the airport's old air traffic control tower, which had been converted into a fire station, said Kanikka Kemawutanond, director-general of the Department of Civil Aviation.

August 4th, 2009 BANGKOK - Several passengers were injured Tuesday when a plane slid off a runway when landing at the popular Thai tourist island of Samui, an airline spokeswoman said. The Bangkok Airways plane on a flight from Krabi to Samui Island slid off the runway at 2.30 p.m.

July 25th, 2009 13 of 16 killed in Iran plane crash were crewTEHRAN, Iran — Thirteen of the 16 people killed in a plane crash in northeastern Iran were members of the crew, most of them from Kazakhstan, state television reported Saturday. The Russian-made plane, operated by Tehran-based Aria Airlines and carrying 153 passengers and crew, skidded off the runway and hit a wall Friday while landing in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

July 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - Several flights have been delayed at New York's Kennedy Airport when some 80 turtles blocked one of the runways, a media report said. Officials believe the turtles were probably looking for their mating partners amid the spawning season, the New York Post reported.

July 9th, 2009 WELLINGTON - Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted prime minister of Thailand, is touring the Pacific seeking political asylum, according to a report Thursday on the Fiji-based Pacnews website. Thaksin and an entourage were given the full VIP treatment when they flew Monday into Fiji on a private jet and reportedly met the Pacific island state's military strongman, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, in the capital Suva.

June 17th, 2009 Pilot killed in Minnesota plane crashCRYSTAL, Minn. — Authorities say the pilot of a small airplane was killed trying to land in pouring rain at a Minnesota airport.

June 2nd, 2009 Airliner, small plane nearly collide in NCWASHINGTON — Federal safety officials said a regional airliner and a smaller plane came within 10 feet of colliding on an airport runway in Charlotte, N.C. The incident occurred Friday at 10:17 a.m.

June 1st, 2009 A look at world's deadliest air disastersA look at some of the world's deadliest air disasters: June 30, 2009: Yemenia Airbus 310 enroute to the Comoros Islands crashes into the Indian Ocean with 153 people on board. June 1, 2009: Air France Airbus A330 runs into thunderstorms and crashes into Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing 228 people on board.

May 31st, 2009 MUMBAI - An aviation disaster was averted at Mumbai airport Sunday when two aircraft got clearance to take off simultaneously from two runways but the pilots stopped the planes in the nick of time, an airport official said. The incident occurred at 7.27 a.m.

April 29th, 2009 FAA: 1 dead in small plane crash near ClevelandMAYFIELD, Ohio — The Federal Aviation Administration says one person was killed when a single-engine plane crashed just after taking off from a suburban Cleveland airport. FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says the plane went down just after 4 p.m.