Wounded pilots land plane after axe attack
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Norwegian flight in an unexplained assault that police say could be linked to his asylum status. flying seven passengers from Narvik to Bodoe in northern Norway.
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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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LANDSTUHL, Germany  - Many of the 35 Americans  flown to a U.S. military hospital in Germany after being  wounded in Tuesday's suicide bomb attack in Iraq are in  critical condition, the hospital's commander said on Thursday.
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AN axe-wielding passenger has attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane in an apparent but failed bid to crash it. Police said the man had been taken to a psychiatric unit.
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A plane's tyres burst on landing at Leeds Bradford Airport because of an error by the pilot, a report shows.
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"The plane was en route from Copenhagen to the western Lithuanian town Palanga when the crew noted the failure of the front and right landing gear"  VILNIUS  - A plane with 52 people aboard crash landed in Lithuania on Wednesday but no one was hurt, the airport said, in the second such accident this week involving a turboprop of the Scandinavian SAS airline.The plane ploughed through the ground with its fuselage and right wing and slid off the runway at Vilnius airport when the crew decided to put down there after noticing in flight that landing gear had failed.Following a crash of the same type of SAS plane on Sunday in Denmark, also due to landing gear problems, the airline said it was grounding the Canadian DHC-8-400 aircraft and cancelling 112 flights. Read more
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An Algerian-born man attacked two pilots  and a passenger with an axe on a domestic Norwegian flight  Wednesday in an unexplained assault that police said could be  linked to his asylum status.
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AN AXE-WIELDING passenger who attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane in an apparent but failed bid to crash it was to be placed today in police detention for four weeks, police said.
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The two victims of a small plane crash off the Lancashire coast are named as local men by police.
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Passengers injured as airliner makes emergency landing in Lisbon, delaying a flight carrying Vladimir Putin.
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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 helicopter pilot and a Black Watch soldier were wounded close to Baghdad today as Prime Minister Tony Blair came under pressure from families of serving troops and over the future of Scottish regiments.
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A passenger on a small commuter plane in northern Norway attacked both pilots and at least one passenger with an ax as the aircraft was landing Wednesday, police said.
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TENERIFE, Canary Islands -- A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots foiled 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 officials said yesterday.
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An Air Malta plane carrying 143 passengers and crew made an emergency landing at Scotland's Glasgow airport only hours after it had taken off there, police said.
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OSLO - An axe-wielding passenger on a small commuter plane in northern Norway attacked two pilots and a passenger as the aircraft was landing Wednesday, police said.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Ten passengers were injured, six badly, on Thursday after an Air Canada plane bucked in midair on a flight across Canada, because of heavy turbulence, and made an emergency landing in Calgary.