Six German airline passengers filed charges against the pilot of a British Airways flight for "false imprisonment. "They said they were held against their will after being stuck on the runway for seven hours before taking off, a federal police spokesman said.

Pilots diverted a United Airlines flight traveling from Orlando, Florida to Washington, D. C. , after a passenger lit a cigarette and urinated in the aisle. He's been identified as Mark McGovern. A United Airlines spokeswoman says flight attendants noticed McGovern appeared drunk not long after the plane left Orlando.

Police in Papua New Guinea detain 320 people for performing sorcery and belonging to religious cults. Belief in witchcraft is common in the mountainous South Pacific island. Police raided three villages Monday near the city of Lae, on the northern coast, and detained leaders of a "cargo cult" and their followers.

Danielle George - All Headline News Staff ReporterEverett, WA - Mark Boyle, a fisherman and an artist, is working on two plane designs for Alaska Airlines.

A recent ruling by several California grand juries has indicted 40 pilots for fraud. Federal officials reveal the pilots falsified reports that would have disclosed they were collecting disability payments for medical and psychological conditions - disqualifying them from operating an aircraft. Other pilots failed to report prior criminal convictions.