Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill admitted Monday that she had failed to pay about $287,000 in back taxes and will sell a private plane that has created considerable controversy as she prepares to run for a second term in 2012. (more)
Lefty newshound Arianna Huffington was a bit too liberal — with her BlackBerry use — aboard a commercial jet to La Guardia over the weekend, authorities say. (more)
A suspected bomb has been found in a suitcase that was about to be loaded on a plane bound for Germany from an airport in Namibia. (more)
The mysterious vapor trail off the Southern California coast was probably an airplane and not a missile, the Pentagon and NASA experts said Wednesday. (more)
WASHINGTON — Certain “high risk” packages headed to the United States will undergo additional screening even if they are carried on cargo planes with no passengers, and larger sizes of toner and ink cartridges will be prohibited altogether from passenger flights, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday, as it moved to enhance security in response to the latest terror plot. (more)
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Canadian police are investigating whether a phoned-in hoax caused a Pakistani jet to be diverted to Stockholm for several hours Saturday for fear that one of its passengers was carrying explosives. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The threatening note found in the restroom of a Thai Airways plane was a hoax, FBI officials said Wednesday. (more)
DENVER (AP) — A man from New York died of an apparent heart attack on an AirTran Airways flight from Las Vegas to Milwaukee early Saturday, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing at Denver International Airport. (more)
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Federal investigators have finished much of their work at the site of the Alaska plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others, and have shifted focus to interviewing survivors and hoisting the wreckage from a steep mountainside. (more)
The infant was found stuck in the toilet after the plane landed in Amritsar, northern India, and was rushed to hospital still attached to the toilet bowl, police and doctors told the Press Trust of India news agency. (more)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A hot, dark and miserable four-hour stretch spent by hundreds of travelers parked in a diverted trans-Atlantic plane renewed calls Wednesday to add international travel to a months-old federal rule limiting how long airlines can keep passengers trapped on the tarmac. (more)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities said Monday that someone stole a credit card from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others in Russia, and the card was then used to withdraw cash. (more)
SALANG PASS, Afghanistan (AP) — Relatives of passengers aboard an Afghan plane that crashed with 44 on board joined a desperate search for the wreckage Tuesday as government and NATO search helicopters whirred overhead. (more)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A 10-year-old Dutch boy lay in a hospital bed, head bandaged, skin pale and legs shattered — the lone “miracle” survivor of a plane crash Wednesday that killed 103 people in the Libyan capital. Most victims were Dutch tourists returning from vacation in South Africa. (more)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Some 100,000 Poles filled Warsaw’s biggest public square Saturday, joining together for a memorial and funeral Mass for the 96 people killed in a plane crash a week earlier. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Polish boxer Tomasz Adamek is dedicating his fight against Cristobal Arreola this month to those killed in the plane crash in Russia. (more)
Low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines said Tuesday it would be the first carrier to charge for carry-on luggage, the latest step in de-bundling products and services traditionally included in the price of a ticket. (more)
Two women have been arrested for trying to push a dead relative strapped to a wheelchair onto a Berlin-bound flight at Liverpool John Lennon Airport. (more)
Five people were killed today in a plane crash at Monmouth Executive Airport in Wall Township when a Cessna 337 Skymaster broke apart near the runway during a low pass and spun out of control before crashing nose first, officials said. (more)
