Cuban American pleads not guilty in 1968 hijackingOctober 13th, 2009 NEW YORK - A Cuban American man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of hijacking a Pan American flight in 1968 and was ordered to appear before a district court for pretrial hearings, news reports said. Luis Armando Pena Soltren was ordered by US Magistrate Judge Douglas F Eaton to appear before a Manhattan court Wednesday.
Space shuttle Discovery lands in CaliforniaSeptember 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The space shuttle Discovery touched down in California Friday after weather concerns had prevented its scheduled landing in Florida Thursday. The 5.53 p.m.
S.M. Krishna's flight makes emergency landing in KarachiSeptember 3rd, 2009 KARACHI - An Emirates flight carrying Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna made an emergency landing at the Jinnah International Airport here Thursday night, a media report said.
Oz mile-high club member charged with assaulting a womanAugust 26th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A member of the most notorious "mile high" club Down Under has been charged with assaulting a woman. Lisa Robertson allegedly assaulted a woman outside a St Kilda restaurant, says a report published in the Herald Sun.
Plane slides off runway on Thai holiday islandAugust 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.
US passenger jet makes emergency landing in MiamiAugust 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Continental Airlines jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Miami Monday after encountering fierce turbulence that injured nearly 40 people. Flight 128 was on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Houston Intercontinental Airport in Texas and was southeast of Puerto Rico at an altitude of about 10,973 metres when it encountered the turbulence, which was not part of a storm system, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Astronauts inspect Endeavour's heat shield before landingJuly 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Astronauts inspected the space shuttle Endeavour's heat shield one more time with lasersand cameras before their scheduled landing on earth Friday, NASA has said. Endeavour's thermal protection system was cleared for landing earlier in the flight.
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.
18 bodies from Yemen Airways crash foundJuly 10th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Fishermen have pulled 18 bodies from the Indian Ocean off Tanzania more than a week after 152 people died in a Yemen Airways plane crash, a police spokesman said Friday. The spokesman told the South African radio station SAFM that a weather radar instrument was among the wreckage of the Airbus A310 found near the island of Mafia, located about 180 km south of Zanzibar and 600 km from the suspected crash site off the Comoros islands.
Now, Brits can fly to Australia for ten poundsJuly 7th, 2009 MELBOURNE - British travellers will soon be able to fly to Australia for ten pounds, which is less than the price of a guide book. The move to boost the tourism industry will see 150 Qantas tickets to Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane or Adelaide available for anyone with a valid working holiday visa.
Seven injured as Qantas flight hits air turbulenceJune 22nd, 2009 CANBERRA - A Qantas flight from Hong Kong to Perth in Australia plunged about 100 feet (30 meters) after hitting severe turbulence Monday, injuring seven passengers. The Qantas A330-300 Airbus, with 206 passengers and 13 crew on board, was four hours out of Hong Kong when it hit an air pocket over Borneo, according to Qantas spokesman David Epstein.
Cockpit fire diverts Australian jet to GuamJune 11th, 2009 SYDNEY - A fire in the cockpit of a Jetstar Airways passenger jet flying from Japan to Australia forced its diversion to Guam Thursday, the airline said. The Airbus A330-200 is the same model as the Air France plane that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil last week killing all aboard.
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.
Hudson hero Sully regrets having not warned passengers about river landingJune 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hero pilot Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger told federal officers that the next time he faces any situation like emergency landing in the Hudson River, he'd make sure to tell everybody that they were going to hit water. Sullenberger glided into aviation history on January 15 with a flawless emergency landing in the Hudson River after geese disabled his jet's engines shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport.
JuD has links with Al-Qaeda: Pak Attorney GeneralMay 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Attorney General Sardar Latif Khosa has said that the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has links with Al-Qaeda, and at least one of the culprit involved in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks is associated with the JuD, The News reports. Presenting secret documents before the Lahore High Court (LHC) with regard to the house-arrest case of JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, Khosa said the documents were related with the national security, and therefore is being tabled in a closed door session.
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