U.S. / Tags / Passengers

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 6:39pm neoform

FOX News -- A bus carrying people home from a family reunion crashed on an interstate in southern Kentucky early Monday while passengers were asleep, killing one person and injuring 66 others, officials said. Police said it appeared the driver had dozed off. State.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 1:54pm neoform

SF Gate -- Nearly 400 passengers were stranded aboard a Cathay Pacific Airways jet for more than seven hours Tuesday at San Francisco International Airport, adding yet another planeload of angry consumers to a growing industry backlash. Passengers boarded Flight.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 9:49pm neoform

FOX News -- Hundreds of passengers were stranded for hours overnight on airliners that couldn't take off from John F. Kennedy International Airport because of the ice and snow storm that pummeled the Northeast. The exact number of planes stuck on the tarmac was un.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Feb 17, 2007 @ 1:49am neoform

New York Times -- A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water in his face, and about 10 people pounced on him, Spanish official.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- A charter bus rolled off icy roads in far southeastern Utah, killing seven and injuring about 20 passengers. About 80 passengers were on board the bus when it crashed Sunday about 10 miles north of Mexican Hat, in the Four Corners region where Utah mee.. 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 Sun Aug 12, 2007 @ 12:28pm neoform

CNN -- Weary international passengers were stuck at Los Angeles International Airport for several hours, after a computer failure prevented customs officials from screening arrivals. More than 20,000 international passengers, both Americans and foreigners, sat i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jul 21, 2007 @ 8:21pm neoform

CNN -- Storms dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of Texas on Saturday, stranding more than 170 passengers on an Amtrak train for hours and forcing rescue crews elsewhere to pull at least 50 people to safety. Water covering the tracks in Knippa, about 75 mi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

Washington Post -- A unanimous Supreme Court ruled yesterday that passengers in vehicles pulled over by the police have the same rights as drivers to challenge the legality of the traffic stop when it results in an arrest. The court said that passengers, like the driver,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:40am neoform

FOX News -- The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis apologized to fellow airline passengers in an interview aired Friday, and insisted he was told before he set out for his wedding in Europe that he wasn't a threat to anyone. "I've l.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 4:12pm neoform

BBC News -- A US tuberculosis patient who triggered a health scare by boarding two transatlantic flights has apologised to passengers he may have endangered. "I'm very sorry for any grief or pain that I have caused," Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old lawyer, told ABC.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 1:46pm neoform

CNN -- The man infected with potentially fatal tuberculosis is receiving treatment at a Denver, Colorado, hospital as federal health officials continue to track down airline passengers who may have been exposed to the illness. The man has been identified by m.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 31, 2007 @ 9:00pm neoform

FOX News -- A car going the wrong way on a divided highway collided head-on with a Greyhound bus early Saturday, killing the driver of the car and injuring 20 others, police said. Panicked passengers crawled out the bus' windows. The car, driven by a young woman,.. 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

U.S. / NEWS Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 4:16pm neoform

CBS News -- Hundreds of passengers were stranded for hours overnight on airliners that could not take off from John F. Kennedy International Airport because of the ice and snow storm that pummeled the U.S. Northeast. The exact number of planes stuck on the tarmac.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 5:34pm neoform

CNN -- Hundreds of passengers were stranded for hours overnight on airliners that couldn't take off from John F. Kennedy International Airport because of the ice and snow storm that pummeled the Northeast. The exact number of planes stuck on the tarmac was un.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 5:34pm neoform

CNN -- Storms in the Northeast caused problems Saturday for airline travelers up and down the East Coast and prompted cancellations of political events in New England. US Airways had hundreds of storm-related plane cancellations Saturday, but hoped to get bac.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 1:39pm neoform

USA Today -- Airlines confronted with a day-long ice storm left hundreds of passengers stranded on jets for hours Friday night at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The exact number of planes stuck on the tarmac was unclear, but irate passengers reported that t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

SF Gate -- A huge fire burned hundreds of feet of a railroad trestle at the American River in Sacramento on Thursday evening, causing part of the bridge to collapse and halting passenger and freight traffic on Amtrak and Union Pacific lines on the main east-west rou.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 12:58am neoform

MSNBC -- The winter storm that blasted the Midwest and Northeast this week wreaked havoc with travelers and airlines alike. JetBlue apologized Thursday for several flights that kept passengers stranded on planes for several hours — 11 hours for one flight — an.. Read More