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A plane from JIA to Raleigh is being held on the runway because of some kind of problem on-board. Raleigh-Durham Airport Police say they got a call about a "serious disturbance" between two passengers. The plane landed and is now surrounded by police in a remote area. Our sister stations there tell us it's American Eagle flight 518. Passengers were kept on-board for more than an hour, but have since started de-planing. The FBI and TSA are both investigating

Was Plane That Vanished From Angola the Same One That Crashed off Benin on Christmas Day? ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writ By Nafi Diouf and Published: Jan 2, 2004 DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - American authorities are investigating whether a Boeing 727 shattered in a deadly Christmas Day crash off West Africa was the same jet that vanished in Angola last year, setting off a worldwide search, a U.S. State Department spokesman said Friday. Also, a Canadian humanitarian-flight pilot told The Associated Press he saw a 727 with the missing Angola jet's tail number at Guinea's airport in June - a...