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WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 28, 2008 @ 8:03am neoform

CNN -- Flight cancellations, delays and baggage problems continued to plague Heathrow Airport's Terminal Five for a second day after the much-heralded building opened for business. British Airways, the only airline operating from the new terminal, canceled 20 pe.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 30, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- All 56 people on board a passenger plane that crashed in south-western Turkey have died, the airline's chief executive has said. Initial reports from rescue helicopter teams found no survivors, said Tuncay Doganer, head of Atlasjet. The McDonnell Do.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- A senior Vatican cardinal has inaugurated a low-cost charter flight service which aims to transport Catholic pilgrims to holy sites. The first flight from Rome to Lourdes in France took off at 1130 (0930 GMT), using a small charter airline owned by the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Aug 2, 2007 @ 9:52am neoform

FOX News -- The six Muslim leaders who were removed from a US Airways flight last fall after passengers thought they were acting suspiciously will not include those passengers in their lawsuit against the airline and police, an attorney for the imams said Wednesday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- A woman falsely claimed there was a bomb on board a Turkish airliner to try to delay the flight so her husband could catch it, Turkey's Onur Air says. Both of them were arrested. Airline staff found out the bomb warning was a hoax in time to stop the p.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:18am neoform

BBC News -- An Indian court has ruled against a group of female flight attendants who were grounded from the national airline for being overweight. The court said that state-owned Indian Airlines had the right to take the step in the interest of flight safety and.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jan 22, 2007 @ 9:41am mrmdc

BBC News -- A passenger barred from a Qantas airlines flight for wearing a T-shirt depicting US President George Bush as a terrorist has threatened legal action... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Dec 1, 2006 @ 8:39am neoform

New Yorker -- American Airlines Flight 45—departing Charles de Gaulle at 10:40 A.M., arriving J.F.K. at one each afternoon—is a tourist’s delight: timed just right to avoid late checkout, leaving time for one last Kir Royale at Les Deux Magots. On August 22nd, th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 15, 2006 @ 3:25pm mrmdc

Reuters -- A 65-year-old Australian man was fined S$10,000 ($6,423) by a Singapore court for uttering the word "bomb" on a flight to Indonesia, The Straits Times reported on Wednesday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Nov 9, 2006 @ 4:52pm neoform

Yahoo News -- France successfully shot its new M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile over the Atlantic on Thursday in its first experimental test flight, the Defense Ministry said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Apr 18, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- A Sunnyvale woman diagnosed with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis who traveled from India to the Bay Area in December may have infected another passenger on her flight, health officials said this week. The passenger on the woman's Dec. 13 flight.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 25, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Struggling to breathe, American Airlines passenger Carine Desir asked for oxygen, but a flight attendant twice refused her request, the woman's cousin said. "Don't let me die," the cousin, Antonio Oliver, recalled Desir saying after the attendant allegedl.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 9, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

CNN -- A judge in Chad on Friday freed three Spanish flight crew members who had been detained for allegedly plotting to kidnap African children from the impoverished central African country, a senior Spanish foreign ministry spokesman told CNN. The three Spania.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Sep 17, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

BBC News -- Investigators probing a plane crash at a Thai tourist resort say they have found the aircraft's flight recorders. At least 89 people were killed when the plane, operated by Thai budget airline One-Two-Go, skidded off a runway in heavy rain on the islan.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Sep 17, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

USA Today -- Authorities on Monday found the two flight data recorders from a plane that crashed and killed 89 people — mostly foreigners — on Thailand's resort island of Phuket, while an airline official said wind shear may have doomed the flight. The budget O.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Aug 28, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- The flight recorders from an Indonesian airliner that crashed on New Year's Day with 102 people on board have been recovered, officials say. The discovery of the so-called black boxes comes after a US-operated ship arrived last week to help the search... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 8:10am neoform

BBC News -- A strike at India's state-run domestic airline that caused flight chaos across the country has ended, officials say. Some 12,000 ground staff at Indian Airlines had been on strike demanding better wages and career prospects. The were angered at a go.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 4:46pm neoform

CNN -- A government flight that linked Peru's isolated jungle communities crashed in a storm, officials said, and at least five survivors among the 20 people on board were rescued Friday after helicopters spotted a fire they had set. The Twin Otter plane pilo.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 4:57pm neoform

BBC News -- Thousands of passengers across Europe have been stranded because of a strike by air traffic controllers and flight attendants in Italy. British Airways, Lufthansa, Iberia and other airlines said they had cancelled dozens of flights to and from Italy... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

CBC -- A former police officer says he believes he could have found explosives on Flight 182, but the plane had already left a Montreal airport by the time he arrived to check it, the Air India inquiry heard Wednesday. Serge Carignan — a former dog handler.. Read More