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Sat, 27/11/2010 - 17:06 by Anter Prakash Singh
The officials of American Airlines have confirmed that there was a suspected cholera patient on flight 778 arriving from Dominican Republic at Miami on Thanksgiving night.
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Thu, 11/11/2010 - 07:54 by Prince damin
Mesa, Ariz. -- Police in Arizona said they arrested a man who was caught throwing oranges at airplanes and sniffing spray paint near an airport.
Investigators said they responded to a call at the Falcon Field municipal airport in Mesa and found Brian Henio, 33, in a neighboring orange grove throwing fruit at the planes, The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, reported Wednesday.
Police said Henio had paint on his upper lip and they recognized the smell of spray paint.
The suspect, who was described by police as "extremely jittery," told officers he knew he was trespassing and wanted to go to New Mexico, the arrest report said.
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Sun, 10/10/2010 - 21:58 by Prince damin
Amsterdam, Netherlands -- Grammy Award-winning soul singer Solomon Burke died Sunday on a plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, officials said. He was 70.
Burke died after arriving on a flight from Los Angeles, Sky News reported Sunday. He was to perform Tuesday in Amsterdam.
A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Burke is known for the hit "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love."
Burke was born in an upstairs room at a gospel church in Philadelphia and started his recording career at 14 with "Christmas Presents From Heaven."
"Many artists claim to have their roots in the church, but few go back this far and run this deep," Burke had written on his Web site.
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Fri, 17/09/2010 - 21:59 by Prince damin
London -- British engineers say they believe spacecraft taking off from an ordinary airport runway and carrying tourists into space might be a reality in 10 years.
A British company, Reaction Engines Ltd., is developing a spaceplane it says will travel five times the speed of sound and carry up to 24 passengers and up to 12 tons of cargo into space, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
The unpiloted craft would take off from an airport runway and use its two hydrogen/oxygen engines to propel it more than 18 miles into space.
Each mission of the $1 billion spaceplane would cost about $10 million.
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Fri, 17/09/2010 - 06:07 by Prince damin
New York -- Police in New York said they arrested a man who allegedly hit a woman three times with his car while she was standing in a parking space at an airport.
Ercan Karabeyoglu, 56, of New York, allegedly became enraged when he found Remzija Sahanic, 49, of Hartford, Conn., standing in a parking space at John F. Kennedy International Airport and she refused to move, the New York Post reported Thursday.
Sahanic told the man she was saving the spot for her daughter and he allegedly replied by asking if she was a terrorist and threatening to hit her, police said.
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Sat, 04/09/2010 - 12:51 by Gauri Retarekar
The air-fares offered by most airlines today are influenced by scores of factors. But, saving on air-travel is easy, provided you are ready to devote a little more time and efforts.
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Wed, 21/07/2010 - 01:09 by Pankaj Damin
Mexico City -- Police in the Mexican capital said they detained a man at an airport who had 18 monkeys, two of them dead, hidden in a belt beneath his clothes.
Mexico's Pubic Safety Department said Roberto Sol Cabrera Zavaleta, 38, who arrived at the Mexico City airport from Lima, Peru, was stopped due to a bulge beneath his shirt and officers discovered he was hiding the small titi monkeys in a belt under his clothes, CNN reported Tuesday.
The suspect told police the monkeys were initially transported in his suitcase, but he moved them to the belt to keep them from being harmed by X-ray machines. He said he purchased the primates as "pets" for $30 in Peru.
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Mon, 19/07/2010 - 20:45 by Sophie Anderson
Call it the best way to celebrate after being released within half an hour of detention and that too when the incarceration has been on charges of possession of marijuana.
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Sat, 17/07/2010 - 23:13 by Pankaj Damin
Chongqing, China -- Two recent UFO sightings have caused a stir in eastern China, with "twinkling lights" causing an airport to shut down temporarily.
The lights were observed above the terminal at Hangzhou's Xiaoshan Airport on the evening of July 7, causing 18 flights to be delayed or redirected, China's official Xinhua news agency reported, adding that the lights may have come from a private aircraft. A source told China Daily the lights could have been caused by a military operation.
On Thursday, a second UFO was seen above Chongqing, with one witness saying four "lantern-like objects forming a diamond shape" floated above a park for about an hour, Shanghai Daily reported.
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Wed, 07/07/2010 - 09:37 by Pankaj Damin
Beijing -- The Chinese government says it plans to spend over $100 billion this year in projects in the underdeveloped western region to spur domestic demand.
The money will go for 23 new infrastructure projects such as railways, roads, airports, coal mines, nuclear power stations and power grids, China Daily reported Wednesday, quoting the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planning agency.
The projects will be in the northwest Xinjiang-Uighur, Inner Mongolia, southwest Tibet and Sichuan and Yunnan regions and provinces, the report said.
Construction will start this year to "actively expand domestic demand and promote the fast and healthy development of the western areas," the commission said.
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Sun, 13/06/2010 - 09:45 by Pankaj Damin
Carlsbad, Calif. -- A San Diego company says it has begun field testing a system that will detect potentially dangerous rocks and other debris on airport runways.
Trex Enterprises' FOD (foreign object debris) Finder uses radio waves to find foreign objects that could potentially damage a fast-moving plane.
Airports currently rely on human observers to spot debris on often-busy runways. FOD Finder is mounted on a truck that also includes a vacuum system that quickly collects the litter.
FAA officials were at the McClellan-Palomar Airport north of San Diego to observe the tests, the North County Times reported Saturday.
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Sat, 12/06/2010 - 11:43 by Pankaj Damin
Miami -- A Florida housekeeper at an airport hotel was rewarded with $100 and an employee of the month party for finding and returning $6,000 cash.
The Miami International Airport Hotel said housekeeper Jeanne Mydil, 50, found a large zippered bag containing the cash in the nightstand in a vacant room and immediately turned it over to superiors, The Miami Herald reported Friday.
"I am Christian," Mydil said through an interpreter in Creole. "I never had thoughts of taking the money."
Hotel officials said the cash was left behind by a missionary group on their way to Haiti to assist with earthquake relief efforts.
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