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United Kingdom: Airline passenger tasered after stripping naked and trying to fight pilot

According to Sky News, a drunk airline passenger who stripped naked on the tarmac and challenged the flight captain to a fight had to be tasered by police. The burly, tattooed 52-year-old was caught on video stripping to his black underpants, shouting and remonstrating after stepping off the easyJet flight from Malta to Manchester. He then removed the underpants and was given a hard slap across the face by his female companion before putting his clothes back on. Read article

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Columbia: 4 killed, 2 injured in small plane crash

Foxnew.com reported that, Colombia’s army says a small plane has crashed in a remote region near the Panama border, killing four of six people aboard. Gabriel Jose Olivares, mayor of Acandi in Choco department, said Saturday that local farmers first reported the accident that occurred about 1 a.m. local time. There was no immediate information […]

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European air traffic controllers postpone strike scheduled for October 10, 13′

(EFE). – The European air traffic controllers have postponed sector strike scheduled for October 10 to protest against the measures proposed by the European Commission (EC), which it claims will lead to the loss of 10,000 jobs, reported the European agency Eurocontrol. Read Article

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United States: Jacksonville airport evacuated over bomb scare

NBC News reports that the Jacksonville International Airport was evacuated Tuesday amid “police activity” concerning suspicious packages. Officials posted the information on the airport’s Twitter account Tuesday evening. Michael Stewart, the Jacksonville Airport Authority spokesman, confirmed the evacuation and the presence of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office bomb squad to NBC News affiliate WLTV in Jacksonville, […]

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US plane diverted after pilot suffers fatal heart attack in flight

BBC reports that a plane carrying 161 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing after the pilot suffered what was later proved to be a fatal heart attack. The United Airlines flight from Houston, Texas to Seattle, Washington was diverted to Boise, Idaho on Thursday evening. Read article

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Mexico: Thousands of tourists stranded by strong storms

Shanghaidaily.com reports that the first flight to Mexico City from the swamped airport in Acapulco city took off on Tuesday to evacuate some stranded tourists, Interjet airline reported. Two of Mexico’s largest airlines, Interjet and Aeromexico, are running flights to the swamped airport. Families with small children, elderly members or women are given priority boarding, […]

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Tanzania: Tourist plane crashes at landing, all passengers survive

Shanghaidaily.com reports that two tourists from South Korea survived a light plane crash at an airstrip in Tanzania’s northern region of Arusha, police said on Saturday. Arusha Regional Commander Liberatus Sabas said the small plane crashed when its Ethiopian pilot Nesru was trying to land at the airstrip in the village of Mbulumbulu. He said […]

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United Kingdom: Small plane en route to France crashes in English Channel

According to standard.co.uk, a search was underway for a small plane that ditched in the sea off Jersey in the Channel Islands. The UK-based Cessna crashed about five miles west of Jersey airport this morning. The light aircraft was heading for Jersey airport from Dinan in France, an airport spokesman said. Read article

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Severe turbulence at landing causes dozens of injuries aboard flights into Hong Kong

CBC reports that about two dozen people on two flights were injured when their aircraft hit turbulence before landing at Hong Kong’s airport on Friday morning. Thai Airways said 20 people were hurt when an Airbus A380-800 carrying 500 passengers, two pilots and 24 cabin crew from Bangkok encountered “unforeseen turbulence” as it was descending […]

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United States: Unruly passenger forces flight to make emergency landing in Memphis

ABC News reports that officials say an AirTran flight was safely diverted to a Memphis airport after a passenger tried to open an emergency exit on the plane. Southwest Airlines spokesman Brad Hawkins said Tuesday that AirTran flight 265 was on its way from Baltimore to Austin, Texas, Monday evening when it had to make […]

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