Marcus Schrenker, the investment adviser who allegedly faked his death early this year, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in a Florida court for intentionally crashing his plane.

Schrenker, who owns three Indiana companies, was charged in January with making a false distress call, prompting the U.S. Coast Guard to act and military jets to be sent out, and willfully wrecking his plane.

A Middle Eastern prince has bought a Ł300 million "flying palace".

Saudi Arabia's Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal- has reportedly splashed out on the plane which, when completed in three years time, will be the world's largest private jet.

A new low-cost carrier JetAmerica is offering bargain-basement prices on flights from Newark Airport in New Jersey to Lansing, Mich., South Bend, Ind., and Melbourne, Fla.

The no-frills startup airline offers discounted one-way tickets for the extremely low price of nine dollars a flight. Between nine and 19 seats on every flight will be sold for nine bucks, but after that, tickets may top off at $199, spokesman Bryan Glazer said.

A man taking an effective drug for head and neck cancer was detained at a United States airport in 2008 because the drug caused his fingerprints to become undetectable.

The 62-year-old man, who was flying to the United States from Canada, was taking the drug capecitabine, which is an anti-metabolite drug, for treatment of his cancer after a successful round of chemotherapy. But one of the side effects of the drug can be hand-foot syndrome - a chronic inflammation of the palms or soles of the feet, which can cause the skin to peel, bleed and develop ulcers.

Police in London have arrested a drunk American Airlines pilot before he could fly a plane with 204 passengers from Heathrow Airport to Chicago, USA.

The pilot, whose name was not revealed, was arrested after he failed a breathalyzer test, American Airlines said in a statement issued Thursday. The alcohol test was conducted by police called in by airport security staff who noticed the pilot was drunk.