An incident aboard a United Airlines flight to Tampa resulted in nine foreign-born people being removed from the airplane and left several passengers shaken. In fact, several thought the incident was serious enough that they asked to be booked on another flight. At least 15 passengers who arrived in Tampa Monday on a United flight were supposed to be here Sunday night.

One passenger was killed when an airplane crashed in bad weather and broke apart when attempting to land early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, officials said. National police said 124 people were injured, many of them scattered on the darkened runway when emergency personnel arrived in the predawn hours. Six people, including an 18-month-old boy, were not injured, the national police said.

Air France says a Rio de Janeiro to Paris flight has been canceled because of electronic problems. It is the fourth incident in eight days involving an Air France passenger jet from Brazil. Air France spokeswoman Leticia Lyra says problems were detected on the before the flight was to leave for Paris Saturday with 170 passengers. It was rescheduled for Sunday night. She did not provide details. Read more...

A terminal at New York City's JFK Airport has been evacuated due to a bomb scare that turned out to be a false alarm. A Port Authority spokesman says 250 to 300 passengers were evacuated from Terminal 1 at the airport at about 6 p.m. Sunday. The evacuation happened after an anonymous phone caller said there was a bomb at the airport, and at the same time someone else reported an unattended bag. Read more...

A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding 40 to 60 human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said. "It wasn't labeled or packaged properly," said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman. "They called the local authorities." The incident happened in Little Rock, Ark., last Wednesday, she said. Read more...

158 dead in plane crash

From The AP --- An Air India Express plane trying to land at a tricky hilltop airport in southern India overshot the runway, crashed over a cliff and burst into flames at dawn Saturday, killing nearly 160 people, officials said. There were eight survivors. Dense black smoke billowed from the wreckage of the flaming Boeing aircraft in a hilly area with thick grass and trees just outside Mangalore's Bajpe airport.

Firefighters sprayed water and foam on the plane — which was traveling from Dubai — as others struggled to find survivors. An Associated Press photo showed two rescuers running up a hill carrying a young girl covered in foam to waiting medics. The child's fate was not immediately known. The plane was carrying 160 passengers — all Indian — and six crew members, Air India official Anup Srivastava said. The British pilot and Indian co-pilot were among the dead.

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Boeing to send investigators to crash site

From One India --- Aircraft Major Boeing whose aircraft which belonged to Air India got crashed while landing in Mangalore is sending a Investigation team to India to provide technical assistance in the investigation of the crash. The aircraft belonged to the latest range of aircraft's being rolled out by Boeing which got crashed. Expressing the condolences over the incident the Boeing team said,“Boeing wishes to express its profound condolences to the friends and family of those lost on Air India Express Flight IX—812, as well as its wish for the recovery of those injured,”.

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Airlines collected $7.8 billion in revenue from ancillary fees last year, up 42 percent from 2008. Most came from checked baggage, which were first implemented in 2008 when oil prices were at $147 per barrel. Delta collected the most revenue from fees last year among U.S. airlines at $1.65 billion. American is in second place, followed by US Airways. American and U.S. Air were second and third respectively.

From ABC News --- A Delta flight from Paris to Atlanta was diverted to Bangor, Maine Tuesday after federal air marshals took into custody a suspect who was causing a disturbance, according to U.S. officials and a statement from the Transportation Security Administration. TSA officials said the suspect is now being interviewed by law enforcement agents.

One U.S. law enforcement official said that two air marshals were "sitting on the guy's chest" as the plane landed. A Delta spokesperson confirmed the plane had been diverted because of a "disruptive passenger" who was taken into custody by air marshals.

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From Fox News --- Planes were flying into all of Europe's top airports — London's Heathrow, Paris' Charles de Gaulle and Frankfurt. Still experts predicted it could take days — even more than a week — to clear a backlog of stranded passengers after about 102,000 flights were canceled around the world. It's estimated that airlines lost at least $1.7 billion in revenue during the volcanic ash crisis.

Eurocontrol, the air traffic control agency in Brussels, said 21,000 of the continent's 28,000 scheduled flights will go ahead on Wednesday, as airlines patched together operations with planes and flight crews scattered all over the globe. Air controllers lifted all restrictions on German airspace, but some restrictions remained over parts of Britain, Ireland and France. Giovanni Bisignani, the head of the International Air Transport Association, called the economic fallout from the six-day travel shutdown "devastating" and urged European governments to examine ways to compensate airlines for lost revenues, as the U.S. government did following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

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Scientists fear tremors at the Eyjafjallajokull volcano could trigger an even more dangerous eruption at the nearby Katla volcano — creating a worst-case scenario for the airline industry and travelers around the globe. A new eruption would be 10 times stronger and shoot higher and larger plumes of ash into the air than its smaller neighbor, which has already brought European air travel to a standstill for five days.