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British military aircraft scrambled Sunday to assist a civilian passenger aircraft after an incident, the Ministry of Defense said, adding that the jets later returned to base.
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LONDON - A bomb threat that mentioned Iraq forced a New York-bound Greek airliner to make an emergency landing Sunday at London's Stansted Airport escorted by military jets, authorities said.    An airport spokeswoman said an Athens newspaper had received a phone call saying there was a bomb on board the Olympic Airlines plane...
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Norwegian and British fighter jets were scrambled to intercept Russian bombers over the north Atlantic, the latest in a series of such incidents, Norway&#39;s military command said Friday.
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Emergency services search for a light aircraft which lost contact with air traffic control over Oxfordshire.
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The captain of a British Airways jet that crash-landed at Heathrow reveals his co-pilot was at the controls.
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The Royal Air Force (RAF) said Sunday it was carrying out probably its biggest peacetime rescue operation in Britain as its helicopters helped evacuate more than 100 people from flood-hit areas.
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Circling fighter jets were just a sideshow Monday to the blitz of new orders for Airbus on the first day of the Paris Air Show, as the European plane maker scrambled to repair its battered image.
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A British Airways passenger plane was forced yesterday to make an emergency landing, escorted by two fighter jets, after a security scare.
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LONDON - A bomb threat that mentioned Iraq forced a New York-bound Greek airliner to make an emergency landing Sunday at London's Stansted Airport escorted by military jets, authorities said.    An airport spokeswoman said the Olympic Airlines plane, with 301 passengers and crew on board, landed in "full emergency" status and was safely evacuated...
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MILITARY fighters escorted a London-bound British Airways flight as it was diverted to land in Amsterdam yesterday in what turned out to be the third aircraft bomb hoax this week.
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The engines of a British Airways plane that crashed at Heathrow had not shut down as first thought, investigators said yesterday
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BRITISH military jets today escorted an Olympic Airlines aircraft en route from Athens to New York to Stansted airport near London after a bomb alert, defence ministry and airline officials said.
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A Royal Navy helicopter is scrambled to assist the crew of a boat which has capsized in the Firth of Clyde.
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The engines on a British Airways aircraft that crash-landed at Heathrow Airport failed to respond to a call for more power, according to findings of a preliminary enquiry released Friday.
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A British Airways plane on a flight from China made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport on Thursday and three people were slightly hurt in an incident police said had no link to terrorism.
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A plane load of British-bound passengers diverted to Amsterdam after a bomb scare was back in the UK. British Airways flight 983 from Berlin&#39;s Tegel Airport was due to arrive at London&#39;s Heathrow Airport at
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The RAF military planes that escorted the Greek Olympic Airlines Airbus until it made an emergency landing at Stansted Airport in Essex, east of London, had orders to shoot it down in the case of a bomb attack or hijack, according to British newspapers