Reporting from Beirut -- Two flight recorders from a flaming commercial airliner that crashed Wednesday in northwestern Iran have been recovered but are badly damaged, state television reported today. Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, headed from Tehran to Yerevan, the Armenian capital, ...Read More
The sixth and final season of “Lost,” the ABC castaway mystery, will begin on Feb. 2, when the series moves to Tuesday nights for the first time. ABC announced Thursday that the two-hour season premiere would begin at 9 p.m., preceded ...Read More
CHICAGO — Chicago police say a Jordanian national was arrested at O'Hare International Airport on a warrant from Minnesota alleging that he is wanted for making terrorist threats. Officials say Ismail Alqawasmi was taken into custody Thursday evening by Immigration and ...Read More
MEXICO CITY (CNN) -- The hijacking of a commercial airliner carrying more than 100 passengers ended peacefully Wednesday when eight people were taken into custody at Mexico City's airport, officials said. The hijackers took control of the Boeing 737 Aeromexico jet ...Read More
(CNN) -- A commercial airliner carrying 104 passengers was hijacked Wednesday on the tarmac at Mexico City's airport. Three abductors -- possibly Bolivians or Colombians -- aboard the Boeing 737 Aeromexico jet have threatened to blow it up if their demand ...Read More
Those 47 passengers who were trapped on a commercial airliner in Rochester for about half a day over the weekend are now receiving an apology today and other financial accommodations. The Continental Airlines flight Friday night from Houston to the Twin ...Read More
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A flaming commercial airliner crashed in northwestern Iran on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board in the deadliest civil aviation disaster in the Islamic Republic in two decades. Caspian Airways Flight 7908, headed from Tehran, Iran, to ...Read More
Reporting from Beirut -- A flaming commercial airliner carrying 168 people crashed in northwestern Iran today and all on board were believed to be dead, witnesses and state media reported. Caspian Airways Flight 7908, headed from Tehran to the Armenian capital ...Read More
(CNN) -- All 168 people on board a Caspian Airlines passenger plane were killed when the aircraft crashed in northwestern Iran, according to Iran's government-owned Press TV. Ten members of the country's youth judo team were aboard the plane, several sources ...Read More
Iranian state media say a passenger plane has crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people on board. State television said Wednesday the Iranian airliner was heading to the Armenian capital of Yerevan when it went down near the northern Iranian ...Read More
A Paris schoolgirl, who survived a plane crash into the Indian Ocean this week, was told today that her mother had been lost in the wreckage off the Comoros Islands. Bahia Bakari, 13, clung to a piece of debris in the ...Read More
Brazil has called off the hunt for bodies and wreckage from an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic earlier this month with 228 people aboard. But the search for the “black boxes” that might explain what happened will ...Read More
June 25 (Bloomberg) -- The bodies of the captain and asteward of Air France AF447, which crashed into the AtlanticOcean, have been identified, Air France-KLM Group said in astatement on its Web site. Their bodies were among the 49 that French ...Read More
PARIS (Reuters) - The body of the pilot of an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic on June 1 has been identified among dozens that have been recovered from the ocean, the airline said Thursday. All 228 people on ...Read More
French military ships have reportedly detected signals from the black boxes of the doomed Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic last month. The French newspaper Le Monde reported this morning that a research mini-submarine, the Nautile, had dived to ...Read More
SAO PAULO — French military ships have detected signals from the black boxes of Flight 447 in the Atlantic depths, French newspaper Le Monde The "black boxes" may contain vital information that could help explain what happened when the Airbus ...Read More
(Adds details and background) PARIS, June 23 (Reuters) - Signals from the flight datarecorders of the Air France airliner that crashed into theAtlantic killing all 228 people on board have been located, LeMonde newspaper said on its website on Tuesday. An Air ...Read More
Some debris from the crashed airliner has been recovered Air France says it is set to pay initial compensation to the families of those killed in the Atlantic air crash on 1 June. Two hundred and twenty-eight people died when a ...Read More
