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U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A second young woman has come forward to claim that Southwest Airlines employees made her cover up on a recent flight, leading jet-setters to ask: Will my outfit fly? Setara Qassim said a flight attendant confronted her during the trip from Tucson, Arizon.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:25pm neoform

SF Gate -- A flight attendant was removed from a plane and arrested at Blue Grass Airport because she was allegedly drunk. The airport confirmed Monday that its public safety officers arrested Sarah Mills, 26, of Atlanta, on charges of terroristic threatening, al.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 3:12pm neoform

CBS News -- Minneapolis An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that the man had ejaculated on her. The FBI identified the man as Samuel Oscar Gonzalez, 20, of Lakewood, Wash. He was charged in federal.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 30, 2006 @ 2:30pm mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Imams, ministers and a rabbi staged a "pray-in" demonstration at Reagan Washington National Airport and asked an apology from US Airways for barring six Muslims from a Minneapolis to Phoenix flight last week... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 22, 2006 @ 8:18am neoform

CNN -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations called Tuesday for an investigation into the behavior of airline staff and airport security in the removal of six Muslim scholars from a US Airways flight a day earlier... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 20, 2006 @ 9:12pm neoform

MSNBC -- A commuter airline has disciplined a flight attendant who ordered a passenger off a plane for refusing to cover herself with a blanket while breast-feeding her toddler, the airline said Friday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- An American Airlines flight from Orlando, Fla., to Dallas-Fort Worth was diverted to Houston on Saturday night after a passenger tried to open an emergency door. The passenger was unable to open the door and no one was injured. The passenger, a woma.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 5, 2007 @ 2:02pm neoform

CNN -- Six nuclear warheads on cruise missiles were mistakenly carried on a flight from North Dakota to Louisiana last week, prompting a major investigation, military officials have confirmed. The plane took the cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base to B.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 16, 2007 @ 2:59pm neoform

New York Times -- ON July 29, Continental Flight 1669, a 737-700 with about 120 passengers aboard, was bound for Newark from Caracas, Venezuela, when bad weather caused the plane to be diverted to Baltimore. It sat there for about five hours with passengers on board as foo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 7, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- A flight attendant appeared in court Monday to answer charges she was drinking alcohol on the job and told a captain "You're dead" as she was removed from the plane. Public safety officers at Blue Grass Airport reported Sarah Mills, 26, threatened the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 7, 2007 @ 1:01am neoform

FOX News -- U.S. flight delays are at their highest level in at least 13 years, and analysts say fliers can expect more of the same for the rest of the summer. The Department of Transportation on Monday said the industry's on-time performance in the first six mont.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 7:13pm neoform

Washington Post -- From the comfort of a control center at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California, pilot Mark Pestana will gun the throttle of his unmanned aircraft, pull back on the stick and gently guide his plane into the sky next month. But he will not be.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

CNN -- An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to London was diverted to New York early Thursday after a crew member became suspicious of one of the passengers, an airline spokeswoman said. The crew member aboard Flight 136 -- scheduled to fly nonstop fr.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 28, 2007 @ 1:09am neoform

FOX News -- A thirsty airplane passenger en route to North Carolina Tuesday caused enough fuss about not getting his apple juice in time that the plane had to land in order to calm him down, FOX affliliate WTFX in Philadelphia reported. The unruly man, seated at t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 21, 2007 @ 1:28pm neoform

SF Gate -- Continental Airlines Inc. is apologizing to its customers for "poor conditions" aboard a transatlantic flight where one passenger described sewage spilling down the aisle from a lavatory. "I've never felt so offended in all my life," passenger Collin B.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 11:40pm neoform

Boston Globe -- Shortly before landing, Bob Hayden and a flight attendant had agreed on a signal: When she waved the plastic handcuffs, he would discreetly leave his seat and restrain an unruly passenger who had frightened some of the 150 people on board a Minneapolis-to.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 2, 2007 @ 3:11pm neoform

Washington Post -- Poor judgment and planning by the pilots probably caused the small-plane crash that killed New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded yesterday. There were a number of bad decisions.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 1, 2007 @ 11:15am neoform

FOX News -- A uniformed flight attendant was arrested at Dulles International Airport after she turned herself in for allegedly carrying a concealed handgun aboard a flight from Atlanta, authorities said Saturday. The Transportation Security Administration, the FB.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 2:30pm neoform

CNN -- A 16-year-old girl who caught a cold during a school trip to New York was kicked off her flight home because she was coughing. Rachel Collier was removed from the Continental Airlines plane as it was about to leave Newark, New Jersey, for Honolulu earl.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 24, 2007 @ 10:13pm neoform

CBS News -- Authorities quarantined an arriving US Airways flight for several hours Friday at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport after a passenger claimed he had smallpox, an airline spokesman said. Health officials quarantined the Airbus A319 carrying 112 pa.. Read More