Former rocker booted off flight in security scare
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Federal agents hauled the former pop singer and convert to Islam off a Washington-bound plane after diverting it to Maine yesterday, and plan to boot him out of the country today because he turned up on a US watch list.
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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 U.S. homeland security chief later said may have been a misunderstanding.
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The British musician formerly known as Cat Stevens, whose plane was diverted in the northern United States &quot;on national security grounds,&quot; is to return to Britain, a US official said.
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Cat Stevens, the singer who changed his name to Yusuf Islam, was on his way back to Britain last night after United States officials denied him entry and claimed he had funded terrorism.
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For the seventh time in two weeks, an airliner has been diverted from a flight over Europe after a mid-air bomb scare. A Virgin Atlantic Airways flight was diverted to land at an airport north of London, England
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A plane carrying the British musician, who changed his name to Yusuf Islam after becoming a Muslim in 1977, was diverted on Tuesday after he was found to be on a London-Washington flight.
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A British Airways flight from London to New York was forced to turn back Wednesday after U.S. authorities refused to allow one of the passengers to land, saying he posed a terrorist threat, the airline said.
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Cat Stevens, the pop artist best known for his songs &quot;Wild World&quot; and &quot;Morning Has Broken&quot; in the 1960s and 70s, was detained onboard a flight from London to Washington when US transportation
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An Iraqi immigrant faces deportation after triggering a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport when authorities found a suspicious device lodged in his body, officials said.
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The co-pilot of a Heathrow-bound passenger flight had to be dragged from the cockpit and handcuffed after suffering an apparent mental breakdown in mid-air, it emerged yesterday
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A Singapore Airlines passenger jet from Frankfurt to New York was diverted to Manchester Airport in northern England on Monday after a bomb threat that police said may have been a hoax.
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A transatlantic flight from London to   Boston had to make an emergency diversion after one passenger   made an unexpected early arrival.
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The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens was denied entry into the United States Tuesday night and will be flown back to England Wednesday.
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A British Airways flight to New York was  turned back to London's Heathrow airport on Sunday because of a  security scare over a mobile phone that did not belong to any  of the 217 passengers, officials said.
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The lead singer of the rock band Incubus was arrested for a carrying a switchblade in his bag while trying to board a plane on his way to a concert in North Carolina.
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A Singapore Airlines plane flying from Frankfurt to New York was diverted to a British airport following a bomb threat that security officials said might have been a hoax.
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Yusuf Islam, the London-based artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, forced a Washington, DC-bound United Airlines flight to land prematurely in Maine Tuesday after his name popped up on a US terrorist watch list.