Parents get plane diverted during exam
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Parents in eastern China have pushed to get a plane diverted to avoid disturbing their children taking nationwide university entrance exams that could make or break their futures, state media reported Thursday.
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A bomb threat forced a passenger plane to divert to a London airport under military escort for an emergency landing today. The Olympic Airways flight
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SN30952 writes &quot;Singapore Airlines 026, a 747 flying from Frankfurt to New York was diverted to Manchester airport following a bomb threat.
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'Middle Eastern' passenger provokes American Airlines divert An American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to London this morning made an unscheduled stop at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport after a member of the flight crew "alerted security on the ground that there may be a suspicious person on board, and the decision was made to divert the flight", Flight International reports.â¦
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Travel: Inspectors at Tarbes-Lourdes airport in France stopped passengers taking holy water on the Vatican's new pilgrim flights.
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First the air-conditioning didnât work. Then the flight was delayed. Finally, a passenger with a video camera began asking some tough questions.
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In these days of jittery travel, sometimes just a phone call can ground an airplane. Over the past week and a half, false bomb threats have forced at least half a dozen flights to make emergency landings in Europe, frightening passengers, tangling schedules and costing airlines big money.
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A second New York-bound Olympic Airways plane was diverted today after a bomb warning. The Airbus A340 with 295 passengers and 12 crew on board had left Athens airport at 1.10pm local time.
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A British Airways plane has been diverted to Amsterdam airport after the airline received &quot;a specific threat to the aircraft&quot;, BA has said.
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A jumbo jet flying from Frankfurt to New York has been diverted to Manchester Airport following a bomb threat, police have said. The Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 landed shortly before 11am without a military escort.
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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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State police said two people were missing and 11 were injured in the crash. It was not immediately clear whether all those people were on the plane.
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An Air Canada flight is diverted to Ireland after a pilot apparently suffers a mental breakdown.
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A Dublin-bound plane was at the centre of a major security alert in France yesterday. The Icelandic Airlines Boeing 737 had taken off from the Balearic Islands in Spain, but was diverted to the French city
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Authorities said a bomb threat is what forced a Greek airliner to make an emergency landing at an airport in England Sunday. The Olympic Airlines plane was headed from Athens to New York when it was diverted to Stansted Airport outside London.
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Part of Dulles International Airport was evacuated on Monday after a "potentially suspicious" item was found in a screening area, causing a backup of passengers trying to get through security, officials said.
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The parents of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann left here early Sunday to catch a plane back to Britain after being named as suspects by Portuguese police and sharply criticising the inquiry in media interviews.