A suspected carjacker led police on an hour-long run after Thursday earlier than crashing through a locked chain-link fence and driving across runways at Dallas Love Field, for the moment halting flights, authorities thought.

The afternoon chase ended when police surrounded and rammed a pickup truck next to a busy runway, pulled the shirtless driver from the cab and placed him in chains. Operation on both major runways was stopped from about 3:20 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen. One arriving flight had to make a 2nd approach, and all departure was held on the ground until the chase was over.

The chase began when an in secret police officer marked a truck that had been reported stolen a day earlier in Fort Worth, Deputy Chief Jesse Reyes said.

Television footage showed police appear to patiently pursue the slow-moving pickup from expressways to side streets until it drove through the airport fence, along the airport taxiways and past one end of its busiest runway.

Reyes said that once the chase was on a runway "police were prepared to use deadly force." Instead, a patrol car rammed the truck, disable the vehicle.

Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, chairman of the City Council Public Safety Committee, said he was worried that the subject of an apparently routine police chase was able to get onto airport grounds so easily.

I think that the whole game changed when he broken up on the runways and endangered multiple lives, Caraway said. I believe it means safety is something we have to take a look at that airport. I will absolutely be bringing that to the committee and we will post something immediately on our agenda.

Asked about what the safety breach said about Love Field security, Reyes said, everything is under review. He also said the gate the man crashed through met present standards.

The driver was a think in several offenses in both Dallas and Fort Worth, as well as a carjacking and robberies, Reyes said.

Reyes said the man, whose identity has not been released, complained of chest pains after his arrest and was taken to a hospital. He would not be charged until he is released from the hospital, Reyes said.

Since Dallas police arrested the man on federal property, the FBI possible will send the police report to the U.S. attorney's office and let federal prosecutors make a decision how to proceed, said FBI spokesman Mark White.

"We're all kind of looking at it trying to figure out just accurately what is happening here," White said.

Travellers looking for the most excellent airport tax-free shopping deals should shun Heathrow, according to a study. A mystery shopping work out involving 10 major European airports showed Heathrow offered the lowest discount.

Compared with high street prices, the tax-free discounts at Heathrow were now 3.1% better, the study for shopping comparison website Kelkoo showed.

Average saving among the 10 airports was 6.2%, with Lyon in France offering the top discounts - 11.9% better than those on the high street.

Gatwick was the 5th-best airport for discounts, with its tax-free items 5.0% lower in price than on the high street.

The survey concerned looking at the prices of 22 products, as well as food, drink, fashion and electrical items. A Panasonic FZ38 Digital Camera ranged in price from £267.85 in Heathrow to £137.58 in Lyon, and a Dolce and Gabbana shoulder bag cost £1,020 in Heathrow and £696.07 in Rome.

Heathrow and Gatwick were the most comfortable airports for luxury, fashion and electrical goods. Spanish airport stores had the maximum prices for health and beauty products, and wines and spirits were dearest in French airports.

A Delta Airlines spokesman says a Detroit-bound jetliner was forced to back to Los Angeles International Airport following experiencing problems with an engine.

The Federal Aviation management says the pilot reported that a bird may have been sucked into an engine of the Boeing 757 now after 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Though, Delta spokesman Kent Landers says a maintenance team inspected the engine subsequent to the plane carefully landed and found no signal of a bird strike. He says the team will more evaluate to determine the cause of the engine problem.

The 179 passengers and nine team members on the flight were placed on a new aircraft that departed at 5 p.m.

Police under arrest a Jet Blue flight helper on Monday suspected of triggering an emergency escape chute on a plane parked at a John F. Kennedy International Airport terminal.

Steven Slater was under arrest outside the JFK terminal & charged with criminal mischief and criminal trespass, said Jennifer Friedberg, a spokeswoman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Flight 1052 had now landed at JFK from Pittsburgh around noon on Monday when Steven Slater, 39, got into a verbal spat with a passenger.

Slater, apparently disturb with the uncooperative passenger, unleash a profanity-laden tirade on the public-address system, pull the emergency-exit chute, slid off the plane and fled JFK International Airport, a law enforcement official said.

In a report, Jet Blue said it was working with the Federal Aviation management and the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to investigate the incident.

"At no time was the safety or security of our customers or squad members at risk," the company said, declining to answer other questions about the incident.

From USA TODAY's Airport check-in column: On average, 2 guns are discovered a day at airport security checkpoints countrywide, the transport Security Administration says.
"From time to time, things show up at airports that reason us to scratch our heads," the organization says in an entry last week on its blog, which was prompted by 10 guns being found on Aug. 3.

Traveler’s most ordinary response is that they had no knowledge that the gun was in the bag, it says. "One man even threw his wife below the bus and claimed she must have left it in there when she was packing his bag."

A pilot died early on Wednesday when his single-engine airplane crashed closed to industrial park just north of a landing strip at Deer Valley Airport.

Witness told establishment that just after 6 a.m., they heard an engine sputtering and saw smoke coming from the Cirrus SR22 previous to it came around for a landing, said Capt. Scott Walker of the Phoenix Fire dept.

Authorities with the National Transportation Safety Board said the pilot made radio contact with the airport tower, but there were no instant reports of suffering call.

The plane was less than a year old and was owned by Magneto savings LLC of Phoenix, according to Federal Aviation Administration records. The pilot was the only occupant, and no one on the earth was injured, authorities said. His name was not released pending positive recognition and notification of next of kin.

A "fairly severe" fire in progress after the crash, NTSB spokesman Joshua Cawthra said, but it was fast put out. Paul Howe, 65, a retired pilot, said he watches the plane take off and noticed that it was flying slowly and didn't gain much altitude.

The 4person plane crashed at Deer Valley Commerce Park, off 19th Avenue and Deer Valley Road. Smoke blackened the walls of City Wide Pest Control buildings, but it did not come into sight to sustain any direct-impact damage. Authorities with NTSB are investigating the crash.

One Dead As Small Plane Hits Phoenix Building