Passengers were hauled out of the terminal of JetBlue airlines at the JFK International Airport here Monday morning after security staff detected two hand grenades inside a checked in luggage. The grenades discovered at 7:50 a. m. turned out to be paperweight replicas of a World War II grenade. Passengers were allowed back to Terminal 6 around 8:15 a. m.

Sharing a similar name with 20,000 other names of Americans on the terrorist watch list is causing nightmares to the namesakes, including children, who have been detained and questioned. Federal agencies and airlines said they are fixing the problem of false positives through the Secure Flight program, but it has been delayed because of concerns that the federal government will gain access to passenger manifests ahead.

A Delta Air Lines flight headed from New York to Trinidad narrowly avoided a mid-air, head-on collision with a Russian-registered passenger jet near near Puerto Rico, a U. S. official said Friday. Peter Knudson of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) told AFP news that a Delta Boeing B737-800 and a Transaero Boeing B747-400, registered in Russia, were travelling toward one another on Thursday night at the exact same altitude of 10,058 meters (33,000 feet).

Data from the United Kingdom's Civil Aviation Authority showed that air rage incidents among British passengers have tripled over the past five years. Pilots blamed the rise on plane delays which led bored and angry passengers to take up drinking as a way to pass the time, leading to inflight fights. From January to March, the CAA recorded 601 air rage incidents, up by 32 percent from 458 cases logged for the first quarter of 2007. For the same period in 2003, only 214 such incidents were on record.

An Angel Flight New England (AFNE) plane crashed in a supermarket parking lot here Tuesday morning killing the pilot, a cancer patient and his wife. There were no casualties on the ground. Witnesses saw the single-engine plane stalling before nose-diving at the Hannaford's parking lot on Robert Drive near Route 106 at 10:25 a. m. The plane exploded into a fireball.