Police say a man naked to his underwear at a Virginia airport checkpoint in a protest next to security procedures.

Airport police said the man took off his shirt and pants at Richmond International Airport on Thursday. He had scrawled across his chest a reference to the Constitution's 4th Amendment protections next to unreasonable search and seizure.

Police recognized the man as 21-year-old Aaron B. Tobey of Charlottesville, Va. He told police he was a student at the University of Cincinnati.

Tobey was interview by airport police and federal authorities, issued a citation for disorderly behavior and released. He is scheduled for arraignment on Jan. 10.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has asked prosecutors to review operations at Moscow's airports after flight delays left thousands stranded.

Freezing weather and power outages have disrupted more than 200 flights over the last three days at Moscow's Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports, causing frustrated passengers to stage protests in some airport terminals.

Rainfall from unusually warm weather created a dangerous sheet of ice that stalled air traffic at both airports.

Passenger Pavel Selin, a correspondent for Russia's NTV stranded at Sheremetyevo airport, today described conditions to RFE/RL's Russian Service.

"What is happening here can be called a total collapse and chaos," Selin said.

"People here not only are stuck for a couple of days, but they cannot get any information at all about their flights. There is not a single official representative of the airport or of Aeroflot. Everyone is gone."

Earlier, Moscow Transportation Prosecutor Yevgeny Pospelov was quoted by Interfax as saying that the authorities had launched a probe meant to, as he said, "protect the rights of passengers" amid complaints of irregular water supply in airport bathrooms, power outages, and a lack of ventilation.

Air Company (S7 Airlines) has become a full-fledged member of oneworld international aviation alliance today, on the November, 15.

Entry of S7 into the oneworld will stimulate competitive capacity of and financial health of air carrier due to providing to its passengers the option to use alliance's global network, which is served by world-first-rate and high-point air companies; it is said in the press-release.

It is also said there that since the entrance into oneworld S7 Airlines provide its passengers full range of services and privileges of the alliance and that oneworld's way to network include Russia and CIS.

People, taking part in the passenger loyalty programs of oneworld's members like American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Japan Airlines, Iberia, Finnair, LAN Airlines, Malev Hungarian Airlines, Mexicana, Qantas and Royal Jordanian can enjoy their discounts and privileges flying with S7 to Russian cities.

It was British Airways, recommended S7 for entry into alliance.

Russia-IC offer you new service, hotel reservation in approximately any Russian and CIS city.

The airport police under arrest a 28 years old man for allegedly making hoax calls about an imminent blast at the Bengaluru Airport. Basavaraja, alias Abdul Saleem of Sadashivanagar in Nelamanagala was taken into custody and his mobile phone used to make the call was detained.

The police said that on November 8, a nameless person had made a phone call to the BIA and the airport police station, alerting them of a bomb blast in ten minutes in the airport in which hundreds of people will be killed. The police quick to the spot along with the dog squad.

After searching the entire airport they long established that it was a fake call to threaten the officials in the airport. More investigation revealed that the call was made from a mobile phone, and was intended to misguide the police.

The police exposed that Basavaraja was working as a daily wage labourer after quitting from a private company. He had converted to Islam after he married a Muslim girl.

A year ago, on November 20, he made a similar hoax call to Bengaluru Airport and was under arrest and later released on bail. The DCP Ravikanthe Gowda said Basavaraja had a habit of making similar hoax calls. He has been produced in Devanahalli court and taken into police custody for additional investigation.

Though things are still at the preparation and organizing stage, plans are inching towards finalization for development of an international airport near Shimla, the tourist hill town, well-known as Queen of Hills in Himachal Pradesh.

About 200 bighas of land have already been identified at three places in Shimla and Solan district, and a final decision will be announced soon.

The state has many other ambitious air borne plans including starting heli taxi services by December 2011. Also the number of helipads in the state will be increased to 70, with new ones to be set up in Sirmour, Mandi and Kinnaur districts.

With a mountainous terrain, plans are also there to connect all tourist and religious places in the state by ropeways.

In order to give a further boost to tourism Himachal Pradesh state government will put up a request to the Railway Ministry to start heritage trains on UNESCO listed World Heriatge Sites such as Shimla-Kalka and the Pathankot-Joginder Nagar railway lines.

The Himachal Pradesh government has lately started participating in many domestic and international tourism festivals to promote the state’s multi cultural offerings to interested tourist. The state had just held an exhibition in Delhi, promoting tourism in Himachal Pradesh including state handicrafts and cuisines.

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Four army soldiers parachuting from a plane during an airborne training process were injured Wednesday when they fixed a wind gust and hit the earth hard, officials said.

3 soldiers suffered probable mild concussions, while the 4th complained of a strained neck muscle after landing at Rickenbacker International Airport, said David Johnson, a spokesman for the Army Reserve 412th Civil dealings Battalion in Columbus. The injured soldiers were taken to local hospitals.

The 3 Army Reserve paratroopers and one Ohio National Guard Special Forces paratrooper be taking part in a routine monthly jump that had 56 soldiers parachuting 1,250 feet from a C-130 military cargo plane, Johnson said.

The Ohio National Guard said the men jumped at on 1 p.m. from a plane that had flown from Pittsburgh.

The injured men "caught some additional wind and land hard," Johnson said. "The wind will catch it and the parachute won't deflate, and the paratrooper keeps going," are getting dragged.

Wind speed at the airport at the time was 15 mph, with gust up to 22 mph, said National Weather Service Meteorologist Jeffrey Sites. He said such speeds are not significant but would feel breezy.

One of the men landed on the airport tarmac, while the other 3 came down on the grass. The injured soldiers are ages 26 to 45.

Hard landings are not unusual during the monthly jumps, but the injuries are usually less serious, like sprained ankles and scrapes, Johnson said.

Rickenbacker is home to an Air National Guard base. It is mainly a cargo airport that also has a charter passenger incurable, and it is south of Columbus' main airport, Port Columbus International Airport.

Former Paraguay goalkeeper Jose Luis Chilavert had to be alienated from an Argentine mediator in an Asuncion airport, after an alleged dispute over owed money from previous player transfers.

Pablo Seijas claim that the goalkeeping legend demanded money from transfer the agent was not concerned in.

“Chilavert demanded money from me for his supposed part in the transfers of Argentine players Rolando Zarate to Mexico & Sebastian Romero to Greece, but I told him I had not anything to do with those moves," Seijas told radio station Primero De Marzo.

Meanwhile Chilavert claim that Seijas had offended him in Argentina's Ezeiza airport shortly before a planned flight to Asuncion, calling him a "starving Paraguayan".

The 2 men both got on the plane and continuous their stand-off in the Paraguay capital's Silvio Pettirossi airport, coming to blows when Chilavert challenged the mediator to repeat his abuse on home soil.

"It bothers me that in a foreign land they say whatever, but in our country I am not going to permit," Chilavert stated to 1.020 AM on Monday afternoon.

"He landed a punch on me, but he absolutely got the worst of it."

Chilavert represented Paraguay 74 times and scored 8 goals in a playing career that enclosed over 20 years, and also played in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups. He also managed to score over 60 times from free-kicks and penalties, a record for goalkeepers until Sao Paulo's Rogerio Ceni surpassed him.

A check-in worker at Auckland Airport will come into view in court later this week accused of assaulting radio host Iain Stables.

The man was under arrest by police behind the controversial shock jock here at the airport on Saturday night to catch a Jetstar flight to Wellington and was told by the employee he was too late.

A stable allegedly called the man "loser" and was then allegedly assaulted by the worker who had to be pulled off by airport security.

A county Manukau spokeswoman established this afternoon that a man had been arrested and would appear in Manukau District Court on Friday.

A 2nd straight day of stormy climate caused some lunchtime delay today at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Winds and storms rolled through the Phoenix area late Tuesday morning. That caused for some departure delays and fewer arrivals until the climate cleared.

Assistant airport director Deb Ostreicher said at 1:30 p.m. that 40 to 50 planes were lined up to take off after the weather had cleared. The prospects of more high winds required those planes to be spread out more which makes catching things up at the airport a little longer, Ostreicher said.

Terminal 1 at Manchester Airport in England was reopened Friday after being briefly evacuated since of a suspect package, police said.

Police said they responded today morning after information of the suspect package going through safety at the departures area of the terminal.

They evacuated the terminal and bomb removal officers examined the package, later confirming it posed no threat to the public.

Officers spoke to the man who owns the package and said no offense had been committed.

2-airlines are adding new flights from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport one to the Bahamas and one to Savannah, Ga.

Low-cost carrier Allegiant Air will start offering nonstop flights from Fort Lauderdale to Savannah in November. Twice-weekly flights, designed for Thursdays and Sundays, start Nov. 18.

The Las Vegas-based company is contribution introductory one-way fares of $29.99 if trips are booked by Oct. 5. The limited fares are good for travel through March 8.

Bimini Island Air is starting direct repair to Marsh Harbour, Treasure Cay and Bimini on Sunday. The airline will offer service on rotating days of the week, with flights operating out of the commuter terminal.

Introductory fares start at $109.

Investigators found no proof of a bomb aboard a Thai Airways flight on Tuesday after a written danger was exposed in a lavatory shortly before its arrival in Los Angeles, officials said.

After landing safely, the Airbus A340-500 taxied to a remote area of the Los Angeles International Airport where official interviewed passengers and crew members, screened luggage and searched the plane.

"No proof has been found to propose a credible threat to the aircraft," FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.

The FBI is now investigating to decide who was responsible for creation the threat among the 171 passengers and 18 crew members on the Thai Airways International Flight 794 from Bangkok to Los Angeles, she said.

Eimiller could not verify reports that the threat was scrawled on a lavatory mirror.

Los Angeles airport official were notified of the threat around 90 minutes before the flight's scheduled arrival on Tuesday night.

It was not immediately recognized if passengers were conscious of the bomb threat during the flight.

Thai Airways said in a statement in Bangkok that airline officials were waiting for the plane to be released for its go back to Bangkok.

2 American pilots of the UPS cargo plane, who died in a crash, had to survive in the smoke-filled cockpit as they fought to preserve altitude and requested to land at the airport at this time, UAE's civil aviation right said.

Based on a preliminary report, General Civil Aviation Authority supposed air traffic controller here received information from officials in Bahrain at 7:15pm (local time), minutes before the crash that the plane was returning to Dubai after coverage smoke in the cockpit.

United Parcel Service B744 plane left the Dubai International Airport at 6:53pm for Cologne in Germany and crashed into the desert outside the city.

As per report, ATC issued clearance when the plane was approximately 40km from touchdown; however, the ill-fated aircraft was high on the approach 8500 feet at 24km from touchdown.

The plane passed above the airfield "very high", the GCAA said in a statement, adding that it made a right turn before tracking south west and losing altitude rapidly.

At around 7:42pm, radar contact was lost as the B744 crashed in an unpopulated area between the Emirates Road and Al Ain Highway, 50 minutes after being airborne.

The report confirmed that the investigation team had recovered the "black box" the digital flight data recorder about six hours after the accident and is gathering forensic evidence from the scene.

A team from the National Transportation Safety Board will arrive in the UAE to assist the GCAA in the crash investigation.

The crash on Friday killed Captain Doug Lampe, 48, and First Officer Matthew Bell, 38, the Atlanta-based package delivery company said.

Police evacuated 2 terminals at Miami International Airport to investigate suspicious packages and more than a few flights were abstracted to additional parts of the airport, local media reported Friday.

A bomb squad and officials were on the scene investigate a suspicious item found inside luggage in the customs area, according to media reports.

WSVN television said terminals E and F were evacuated around 9:00 pm Thursday and could remain closed off into early Friday.

Passengers and employees were told to leave the affected area.

The Miami Herald said airport traffic slowed to a crawl.

Travelers who could not be picked up by car at the airport left the property on foot instead.

An Indian on his way to Houston, Texas, to deliver a talk to the Hindu Congress of America has been arrested for possessing what has been described by establishment as "jihadi material."

A documentary filmmaker Vijay Kumar(40), was arrested at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport previous Friday after official noticed him behaving oddly in the line for a security check, according to reports.

When he was taken aside for minor screening, Mr. Kumar baggage was found to hold books on spying, information on U.S. military weaponry, and numerous publications on Jihad, as well as the talk about the "infidels."

When a set of brass knuckles and approximately $10,000 worth of currency were exposed in his bags, he is an under arrest.

The Houston Examiner quoted an official as saying, "He had a ton of books," as well as publications written in Arabic, adding, “Not your everyday passenger would have this sort of stuff and it absolutely poses a concern for anyone concerned in airport security."

After his arrest, Mr. Kumar bond was originally listed as $50,000. That was reduced to $5,000 after a hearing on Monday at a District Court. Texas media quoted Mr. Kumar attorney Grant Scheiner confirming that Mr. Kumar had surrendered his passport while considering posting bail.

Mr. Scheiner said, "I think that everybody realised that he is not a threat. He is a peaceful man." He added that Mr. Kumar was in Houston to deliver a talk on an interfaith discussion between Hindus and Muslims about the troubles of terrorism.