A man attempted to board a plane in Argentina with approximately 250 poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles in his baggage, each carefully labelled with its Latin name.

Czech citizen Karel Abelovsky, 51, was on the way to Spain when airport officials made him open his luggage at Buenos Aires international airport after police recognize the reptiles in the X-ray scanner.

They detect 247 exotic and rare species in all, packed inside plastic containers, bags and even socks.

Authorities believe the Czech was a messenger for a criminal organization that smuggles exotic species whose exports are banned. Authorities said Abelovsky arrived in Argentina only days earlier and wouldn't have had time to collect all the animals.

Judge Marcelo Aguinsky believes the boa constrictors, poisonous pit vipers and coral snakes, lizards and spiders could have get away the cloth suitcase in the unpressurised cabin of the December 7 Iberia flight to Madrid, and maybe attacked people there or at his final destination in Prague, where antidotes for South American snakes aren't common, the source added.

Abelovsky was released on around $US2,500 ($A2,468) bail after surrendering his passport and is refusing to talk even though he faces up to 10 years in prison.

Abelovsky runs a Czech-website that offers reptiles for sale. A woman who responds the contact number given on the site said she was his wife but did not give her name and said only that her husband was normal.

Czech authorities have no information about Abelovsky, said Martina Kankova, spokeswoman for Czech customs administration. She said authorities have traced various people or broken rings of smugglers of several exotic animals in recent years, as well as turtles and parrots.

Czech television described before this year that in 2010, customs officials in the country detained 55 smugglers with dozens of exotic animals.

Most of the animals and bugs are being held under quarantine at the Buenos Aires Zoo, whereas some of the venomous snakes were sent to Argentina's national health institute, which has a high security department where scientists develop-antidotes using venom from snakes.

The species include lizards native to Mexico and snakes, spiders, snails and other species from northern Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Some were already dead in the bag, while others have succumbed to stress since next. Many were quite weak on arrival at the zoo, but the majority is still alive.

Two men were arrested by the custom officers at Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport for attempting to smuggle 44, 400 memory cards from Hong Kong. The incident occurs at midnight when the duo landed in a Jet Airways flight.

The duo has been recognized as Imran Abdul, 29 and Shakeeb Ghulam, 25. They were caught by the team of Air Intelligence Unit while they were departing through the green channel.

The accused had hid the memory cards in the washroom at the airport after they came to know that the custom officers were waiting for them. The officers retrieve memory cards after detaining Ghulam and Abdul.

"The accused are usual carriers and it was their routine to leave the baggage in the washroom so they can clear the green channel without any obstacle," said Additional Commissioner of Customs, Mahendra Pal.

Afterwards, officers came to know that it was their routine as they used to leave the baggage in the washroom and other person used to collect it from there. Throughout the questioning, the custom officers were shocked when they found out that person attached to their own department can be involved in the issue.

supposedly, the third person who was supposed to collect baggage from the washroom is a driver working with the custom department who has a pass to enter airport building. "Our investigations are on to discover if the driver is involved in the case or not. He has not been arrested up till now but the other two have been arrested who will be produced in the court on Friday," said a custom officer from the airport.

An Emirates Airlines flight from London was belated for more than an hour after a passenger demanded to leave the plane, claiming he would be killed on the way to Dubai.

The passenger, believed to be an Iranian male, became nervous when he learned he would require a visa in order to enter the UAE, The National statement.

A witness told the report the man said he would be killed aboard the flight to the UAE.

The passenger was escorted from the Airplane by police, subsequent a security search of the airplane.

In a declaration, Emirates said it tried to accommodate travelers who feel they are weak to fly.

“Emirates can affirm that a traveler asked to be removed from EK004 from London to Dubai on October 16,” the state backed carrier said in an e-mail report.

In April, a British man was imprisoned for three years after triggering a bomb scare onboard an Etihad airliner on the way to London from Abu Dhabi.

The Etihad flight was diverted under fighter aircraft jet accompany to Stansted Airport after James Glen, 37, told a flight attendant that a fellow passenger had a gun and had "threatened to blow himself up.”

Two RAF Typhoon jets were snarled from a nearby military base to escort the aircraft, which had 163 passengers and 15 crew on board.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Passengers on a flight bound for San Francisco used emergency parachutes to evacuate a plane at Dulles International Airport outside Washington after the pilot noticed something was wrong with the engine.

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority spokeswoman Kimberly Gibbs says the United Airlines flight was on the airport taxiway about 1 p.m. Wednesday when the pilot found a problem.

Gibbs says after the passengers were all off, the airplane headed back to the terminal.

It was not clear how many passengers and crew were on board.

For the third time, a United Express regional jet landing at Ottawa International Airport has skid off a rainfall-slicked runway in daylight.

No one was hurt; though the aircraft was badly broken and endured a fuel leak after the landing gear broke and punctured the underside of the wing. There was no fire.

After landing the flight from Chicago on Sunday afternoon, the pilots lost control of the small regional jet and it skidded off the track, Ottawa’s longest and widest. It turned around and its main landing gear under the wings broke as the aircraft slipped on the rain-softened ground.

Like all airlines, this one selected a moniker to identify its flights to air traffic control. Its choice: “Waterski.” So Sunday’s flight used call sign “Waterski 3363.”

Sunday’s mishap came hardly 15 months after another 50-passenger Embraer ERJ-145 landed part-way down Ottawa’s shorter runway after a flight from Washington and ran more than 150 metres off the end of the runway. Both pilots and one of the 33 passengers endured minor injuries and there was significant damage to the plane’s nose after the landing gear under the cockpit collapsed as the aircraft ran off the runway.

Canada Transportation Safety Board investigation into the June 2010 accident isn’t complete up till now.

But a TSB report is complete for a 2004 runway over-run by another Trans States Embraer-ERJ-145. It was a flight from Pittsburgh that landed part of the way down the runway, failed to stop and ran about 100 metres off the end. The TSB concluded the pilots approach in the rain was “high, fast, and not stabilized, resulting in the aircraft touching down nearly halfway down the 8,000-foot runway.”

All three runway mischance at Ottawa involved Brazilian-built Embraer-145 regional jets, flown by Trans States Airlines, a Missouri-based airline that paints its fleet of jets in United Express and US Airways Express colours and flies feeder services for the big airliners. Trans States didn’t react to repeated attempts to contact the airline.

Although pilots on Internet boards sometimes criticize about the smooth, slick asphalt surface at Ottawa, both its main runways are long enough to handle the world’s biggest and heaviest commercial jetliners, such as a Boeing 747 with a landing weight of more than 300 tons. Average landing weight for an Embraer-145 is 20 tons.

The longer of Ottawa’s two tracks and the one involved in Sunday’s incident is 10,000 feet long.

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