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BREAKING: 2 UPS Planes Isolated At Philadelphia International Airport October 29, 2010 9:56 AM From Jessica McWilliams PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Authorities have isolated two cargo planes are Philadelphia International Airport following a report of a suspicious package. Local and federal authorities are investigating a suspicious package aboard a cargo plane that landed at Philadelphia International Airport at about 9 a.m. Friday. A second UPS plane was isolated near the UPS terminal before take off. Authorities say a crew member aboard an inbound UPS plane from Paris, France notified authorities on approach about a suspicious package. The crew member described a...

MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) -- A large cargo plane crashed near Monterrey International Airport in northern Mexico on late Tuesday, killing at least several people, reports said. The Airbus A300 belonging to AeroUnion went down shortly after 11 p.m. local time and crashed near the airport, causing a major traffic chaos. The Milenio newspaper reported that five crew members were believed dead. The newspaper reported that most of the aircraft crashed on the grounds of the airport, although a turbine and wing fell off and landed on a highway near the airport. There were conflicting reports on if there were...

MOSCOW, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A cargo aircraft crashed soon after taking off from the eastern Russian city of Mirny in Yakutia region, killing all 11 people on board, Russian prosecutors said on Sunday. The plane, an IL-76 belonging to the interior ministry, crashed about 1 km from Mirny at the start of a flight to Irkutsk, the investigative committee of the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement. Russia has one of the world's worst air safety records, with elderly Soviet-era planes, dated airport facilities, poor plane maintenance and lax standards contributing to a grim crash toll. Last year,...

TOKYO (AFP) — A FedEx cargo plane en route from China crashed in high winds and exploded in a ball of flames Monday at Tokyo's Narita airport, killing both pilots, according to hospital officials. The pair, said to be US citizens, were reportedly the only two people aboard the McDonnell Douglas MD-11, which was flying in from Guangzhou in southern China. Television footage showed the three-engine wide-body airplane tip sideways shortly after touch-down in strong winds and then, as one of its wings clipped the ground at high speed, burst into a fireball. "We confirm the deaths of the two...

TWO children and an adult have died after a Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed into their home. The US plane came down after reporting an engine fire, but all eight people on board survived. The three who died lived in a farmhouse that was struck by one of the plane's turbines, witnesses told local radio. The cargo plane was taking flowers from Bogota, Colombia, to Miami when it crashed shortly after take-off. The Boeing 747, owned by Michigan-based company Kalitta Air, fell on the rural home 20km west of Bogota. Colombia's civil aeronautics agency said: "As a result of the...

DOVER, Del. — A C-5 cargo plane carrying 17 people crashed just short of a runway at Dover Air Force Base early Monday after developing problems during takeoff, military officials said. There was no immediate word on fatalities.

Officials Fear Over 100 Dead As Plane's Doors Open Over Congo; Plane Owner Denies Deaths The defense ministry of Ukraine, which owns the cargo plane whose doors opened at 33,000 feet, denied Saturday that anyone was hurt in the mishap and said no cargo was lost.Confusion over the death toll persisted as Congolese authorities investigated how many people died after dozens of men, women and children were sucked out of the plane. The flight crew managed to fly the plane back to the capital. Two officials at the international airport told The Associated Press that 129 people were feared dead....

No Flight Controls In a situation reminiscent of the United Airlines DC-10 landing without hydraulics in Iowa in 1989, the crew of a DHL A300 hit by a missile relied solely on engine power without flight controls to land at Baghdad. Pierre Ghyoot, secretary general of the Belgian Cockpit Assn. (BeCA), told Aviation Week & Space Technology that the pilots were able to guide the aircraft to a safe landing on Nov. 22 using only engine power settings. The aircraft lost all three hydraulic systems and all flight controls. Ghyoot said his organization is already planning to give the crew...

Personnel surround the C-2 Greyhound checking to see why its landing gear wouldn't deploy. The plane landed at 7:15 p.m. on its belly at Norfolk Naval Station. bill tiernan/the virginian-pilot. NORFOLK — A Navy cargo plane made an emergency belly landing at Norfolk Naval Station on Monday after circling the airfield for more than two hours because its landing gear had malfunctioned.None of the 25 people on the plane were injured in the spark-filled landing, which Navy officials called “textbook.’’ The C-2 cargo plane took off from the Norfolk Naval Station at 5:10 p.m. It was one of six...

Danville, Calif. -- Several pieces from a FedEx Corp. cargo plane dropped from the sky into a neighborhood in this San Francisco suburb Monday night, authorities said. Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration said three pieces of the plane fell to the ground around 8 p.m., landing mostly in empty yards. The FedEx crew, flying from Oakland to Dallas, did not know it had lost the parts from around an engine until it landed safely in Texas, the FAA said.

Cargo plane has rough landing at Twin Cities airport Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS - No one was injured after a military cargo plane crash-landed Thursday night at Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport, KMSP-TV reported. The pilot of the Minnesota Air National Guard C-130 reported that the plane's landing gear wasn't working properly, the station said. Once the gear was manually set in place, the plane landed. But after it touched down on the tarmac, the plane tilted onto one of its wings, causing a small explosion along the wing. The plane, which had four people aboard, circled for about an hour to...

A CARGO plane crashed at the airport in Azerbaijan's capital Baku, a Russian radio station reported. It said that five crew members survived and that rescuers were searching for two others who were missing. The plane crashed shortly after taking off following a refueling stop during a flight from Ankara to Kabul, Echo of Moscow radio reported, citing Russia's RIA Novosti news agency. It said initial indications were that the plane was Ukrainian.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- A civilian cargo plane landed at Baghdad International Airport Saturday with its wing on fire, the military and witnesses said. The plane was trailing thick smoke and part of its wingtip was missing as it overflew Baghdad's Mahmoudiya district prior to touching down, said a witness who asked not to be identified. Capt. Carrie Clear, a spokeswoman for the U.S. military base at the airport, said the pilot had declared an in-flight emergency. The plane, belonging to the DHL package delivery service, landed safely and no one was hurt, she said. The military spokeswoman said an...

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Sept. 26. 2003 Iyman Faris (Photo: AP) In a July court document, Sinclair said Faris has been placed on a suicide watch at the Alexandria jail and was taking Prozac, an anti-depressant. Attorney General John Ashcroft. (Photo: CBS) (CBS/AP) A man accused of plotting to topple New York's Brooklyn Bridge on orders from al Qaeda has asked to withdraw his guilty plea. Iyman Faris, 34, pleaded guilty in May to charges that he provided sleeping bags, cell phones and cash to al Qaeda. Authorities say Faris traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan to carry out errands for the terrorist...