Report: Air Mauritania plane hijacked
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An Air Mauritania passenger plane that was hijacked after it left the Mauritanian capital has landed in Spain's Canary Islands, according to Spanisn media reports.
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MADRID, Spain -- An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane to Spain's Canary Islands Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after landing, government and airline officials said.
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An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane to Spain's Canary Islands Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after landing, government and airline officials said.
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MOSCOW : Russia said terrorists were behind a passenger jet crash as an Islamic group proclaiming support for rebels in Chechnya claimed responsibility for the downing of that and another plane.
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An American Airlines flight was diverted to New York early on Thursday after the crew reported a suspicious passenger in what the FBI said was a misunderstanding.
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Passengers on a hijacked Air Mauritania  plane ended the ordeal when they stormed the cockpit and beat  up the lone gunman after the aircraft landed in Spain's Canary  Islands on Thursday night, Spanish police said.
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A preliminary report, out Friday, suggests the Hendrick Motorsports plane crashed right after pilots failed to make the proper maneuver after overshooting the airport outside Martinsville.
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Israeli warplanes scrambled as soon as news broke of the Taba bombings. Military sources would not elaborate but analysts suggested the most likely reason was to intercept any hijacked
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BRINDISI, Italy -- A Turkish hijacker seeking to communicate with Pope Benedict XVI seized an airliner flying from Albania to Istanbul yesterday and diverted it to Italy before surrendering.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania - Authorities said on Saturday they arrested the alleged ringleader of a string of foiled coup and assassination attempts against Mauritania&#39;s leaders.
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Two Turks hijacked a Turkish Airlines passenger plane on Tuesday, the Justice Ministry said on Wednesday.
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The co-pilot of andAmerican Airlines flight caused the November 2001 crash in New York that claimed the lives of 265 people, staff at the nationâs airline safety agency reported today.
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Mohamed Ahmed, one of the passengers from the hijacked Air Mauritania passenger plane, speaks to journalists at the airport in Las Palmas on the Canary island of Gran Cararia, Spain, in the early hours of ...Comment
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An Air Mauritania passenger jet is hijacked after taking off from the capital, Nouakchott, officials say.
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The site where a plane crashed in Cambodia on Monday with 22 aboard has been found, officials say.
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MOSCOW - Russian officials said Friday they detected traces of a high explosive in the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners, branding it the work of terrorists, while an Islamic group claimed its suicide attackers brought down both planes because of the war in Chechnya.    At least one crash was "the result of a terrorist act," a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, Sergei Ignatchenko, told the ITAR-Tass news agency...
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A British Airways flight was today forced to make an unscheduled landing in Amsterdam, accompanied by Dutch fighter jets, after a &quot;specific threat&quot; was reported.