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US arrests suspected 1968 Pan Am flight hijacker

World
2009-10-12

A man wanted in connection with the hijacking of a Pan Am flight to Cuba nearly 41 years ago was arrested in New York yesterday, a Justice Department official said. Luis Armando Pena Soltren was arrested at John...

Beijing flights grounded for National Day parade

National
2009-9-16

ALL flights in and out of Beijing will be cancelled for the National Day parade on October 1 from 9am to noon. Six flights from Shanghai to Beijing, departing between 7:55am and 9am, will be cancelled as will seven...

Protesters delay Yemenia flight

World
2009-7-4

PROTESTERS upset at conditions on Yemenia airlines protested at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport yesterday, delaying the departure of a flight to Comoros, four days after the deadly crash of Yemenia Flight 626 off...

Air France will give advance to families of crash victims

World
2009-6-20

AIR France said yesterday it would give about 17,500 euros (US$24,000) as an advance to the families of the victims of the crash of Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Remains of some of the 228...

Jet sent message on rudder problem

World
2009-6-15

A BURST of last-minute automatic messages sent by Air France flight 447 includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device, but that does not explain what sent the jet plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, an aviation...

Officials say Air France debris found

World
2009-6-3

FRENCH officials say debris found in the Atlantic is that of missing Air France Flight 447. French military spokesman Christophe Prazuck says French military planes surveyed the remains initially spotted by Brazilian...

Mars probe readies for flight

Metro | Science
2009-5-29

CHINA plans to launch its first Mars probe in the second half of this year, with exploration of the red planet set for 2010, a senior official at the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology said yesterday. A...

China's chartered flight arrives in Mexico to bring back nationals

National
2009-5-5

A CHARTERED flight from China arrived early Tuesday in Mexico City to bring back some 99 nationals stranded in Mexico, the epicenter of the A/H1N1 flu outbreak. The aircraft Boeing 777-200 arrived at about 1:50am...

Mainland, Taiwan to allow routine direct flights, jointly crack down on crimes

National
2009-4-26

TOP negotiators from the mainland and Taiwan agreed today to allow routine direct flights across the Taiwan Straits. Regular flights will ease the current shortage of cross-straits flights by increasing the number...

Man jailed for urinating on woman during flight

Odd
2009-4-16

A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail for urinating on a 66-year-old woman during a Continental Airlines flight last month from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Jerome Kenneth Kingzio, a resident...