Latest Talking Points:

• 9 men escorted off flight to Tampa as police come on plane with hands on guns...Pakistani men allegedly were acting suspiciously...
• Miracle in the sky!!! Plane crashes and breaks apart in Colombia...130 people walk away...only one dead...
• Air France flight cancelled due to electronic problems for the fourth time in eight days...
• JFK evacuates terminal on bomb scare...turns out to be false alarm...
• 40 to 60 human heads found on a Southwest plane...package not labeled properly...
• Spirit Airlines cancels all flights as their pilots go out on strike citing low pay and poor working conditions as it relates to scheduling.
• Plane crash kills 158 people in India...Air India pilot tried to land 'at a tricky hilltop'...8 survivors...
• Airlines collect a staggering $7.8 billion in fees in 2009...up 42 percent from 2008...Delta alone collected $1.65 billion...
• The Unfriendly Skies...another in-flight bomb threat forces Delta jet to divert and land in Maine...'air-marshals on the guy's chest'...
• Planes back in the air in Europe...Airlines lose an estimated $1.7 billion...Could they have flown sooner? Blame game begins...
• Scientists fear that tremors could trigger more eruptions from Icelandic volcano...and air traffic could be impacted indefinitely...
• European flights begin taking off despite warning that Iceland volcano is not done erupting and more ash could choke airspace...

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