Two brothers were arrested at Miami International Airport after one of them allegedly punched an American Airlines pilot. American Flight 1755 was headed to SFO but returned to the gate after Jonathan Baez, 27, had looked unresponsive and drunk. He was sleeping and not wearing his seatbelt.
The flight attendant attempted to wake him and noticed his condition, alerting the pilot to return to the terminal. As Baez was being taken off the plane, his brother Luis Baez, 29 decided to get regarded and fend for his brother.
As CBS reports, Jonathan at first left the plane without incident but Luis became aggressive and threatened the pilot, saying, "When you fly to San Juan, I will have you killed." Both brothers are from Las Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Few moments later, both men left the plane, Jonathan reportedly returned and punched the pilot in the face. A flight attendant who tried to break up the fight was hit in the shoulder. The brothers over again returned to the jet bridge to walk towards the terminal, with the pilot behind them. They then reportedly bounded him again and proceeded beating the pilot.
As ABC7 describes, as the final attack began, passengers jumped in to aid save the pilot.
They were then taken into custody and transported to the Miami-Dade County jail. They have been charged with provoked battery, motivated assault, and simple battery. The FBI is also involved in the probe because attacking an airline crew member is a federal crime.
A few hours later, the flight was able to take off with a new pilot. It reached SFO early this morning.
The new airport will be situated 18km north of Eilat and handle domestic and European flights.
The Israeli government has sanctioned proposals for a new NIS1.7bn ($500m) international airport at Timna, 18km north of Eilat, according to local media reports and the Israeli government website.
The new airport, originally suggested by Israel transport minister Yisrael Katz, will handle domestic and European flights and be connected to Eilat via a new train line. It will also see the building of a new logistics centre, park-and-ride lot and bus station to replace the current Eilat central bus station.
Construction is set to take three years with planning to be finished in the next 12 months.DFNIonline understands that the airport will be financed and operated by the Israel Airports Authority and that the existing Eilat Ovda airport will close when the new facility is operational.
Israel PM Binyamin Netanyahu said at Sunday's cabinet assembly: "This airport will be an alternative to Ben-Gurion Airport and will free up considerable land in Eilat, provide a solution for the expansion of Eilat and prevent noise and other pollution in the city.”
According to Katz, the closure of the existing airport in Eilat will enable the improvement of the city and develop quality of life for residents.
Sakal Group-owned company Layam Co is the duty-free operator at the existing Eilat Ovda International airport after winning in 2007 a tender to keep on operating at the location, where it has been present for nearly 20 years.
A judged 1.5m passengers are calculated to use the new airport each year, just about 90% of the passengers on domestic flights, according to reports.
An Air India flight carrying 54 passengers skidded off the runway at Kanpur's Chakeri airport while landing for a stopover, burst its front tyre and got stuck in the mud, No one was injured.
A tyre of the Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-700, operating with the call sign AI-9801, burst as soon as it touched down the IAF-controlled Kanpur airport here and slipped off the runway with the front wheels screeching to a stop in the muddy areas.
Airline sources claimed the runway, kept by the Indian Air Force, was not broad enough. According to them, the front tyre of the Jet had burst as the pilot had banged the emergency brakes when the 70-seater plane commenced to skid.
The aircraft was soon moved back to the terminal building. While 52 of the 54 passengers were travelling to Kanpur, the rest of them were sent to Lucknow for their onward journey after the scheduled 30-minute stopover.
A U.S. appeals court in Washington upheld the government's right to use full-body scanners to screen air travelers at the nation's airports but said the Transportation Security Administration should have sought public comment before deploying them.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia which reviews challenges to federal regulations, upheld the use of the scanners, the Los Angeles Times reported, known as Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT.L), were not an unconstitutional search and declined to halt their use despite TSA's failure to follow proper procedure.
The need for public security outweighs the privacy travelers give up, Justice Douglas Ginsburg said, accepting the scanners are more invasive than the older devices that detect metallic objects and not powders or other materials that could explode.
"Despite the safety measures taken by the TSA, it is clear that producing an image of the unclothed passenger … intrudes on his or her individual privacy in a way that a magnetometer does not," Ginsburg wrote.
"That balance [between privacy and security] clearly favors the government here," Ginsburg said.
Passengers have the choice of choosing a pat down search if they don't want to pass over the scanner.
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A regional plane rammed in the northeastern city of Recife early on Wednesday, killing all 16 people on board, Brazil's Air Force has declared.
The Noar Airlines twin-turboprop aircraft reported troubles shortly after taking off early Wednesday morning. The pilot tried an emergency landing, and after hitting the ground hard, the plane crashed into a vacant lot at Recife airport and subsequently burst into flames.
Witnesses said that one passenger was making pleading gestures for help through the airplane window, but it exploded before anyone could respond.
Recife Fire Chief Valdyr Oliveira told Estado radio that the fire was controlled quickly and that investigators are working at the scene for clues as to why the plane went down.
The Air Force said the plane that crashed was a L-410, built by LET Aircraft Industries in the Czech Republic. It had a capability for 19 passengers, according to Noar’s website, along with a crew of two.
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A lone gunman armed with a handgun attacked a bus carrying U.S. Air Force troops at Frankfurt airport in Germany Wednesday, killing two U.S. airmen and wounding two other American servicemen before being taken into custody, authorities said.
The shooting was carried out by a 21-year-old Albanian Kosovar. The motivation of the attacker, who is in police custody, is currently unclear, but those on the hyper-patriotic reactionary right are already screaming bloody terrorism.
In Washington, President Obama promised to "spare no effort" in investigating the slayings.
Police authorities said they believe the suspect stormed onto the bus, which was waiting at the terminal, and began shooting.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. "We don't know the details but I would like to say how upset I am."
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Authorities say a small, experimental plane struck a tree and crashed into a home's yard near an airport in eastern Ohio airport. The 61-year-old West Virginia pilot at the controls was seriously injured.
The Highway Patrol says in a news release the 1990 Derjager D-IX bi-plane crashed when it lost altitude after taking off from the Columbiana County Airport in East Liverpool, 34 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
The pilot's name is being withheld until family members have been notified.
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The second runway at W.K. Kellogg Airport in USA is ready for takeoff.
The 4,100-foot new runway opened today with the first plane landing on it at 2:32 p.m. as a crowd of officials and airport supporters looked on.
Airport officials said they expect the airport’s second runway to increase economic development as well as educational and military opportunities in the Battle Creek area.
The runway is the final stage of $25 million airport expansion project that began in 2001.
