A landing gear wheel fell off a Colgan Airlines passenger plane as the craft came in for a landing at Buffalo Niagara International Airport earlier this week.

The wheel came off a Q400 Bombardier, the same type of plane that crashed three months ago killing 49 passengers and crewmembers, also while approaching the airport in Buffalo, N.Y. That crash also killed one person on the ground.

A 67-year-old pilot went from a bad situation to a foul one Friday when his plane crashed into a lot full of portable toilets.

The man had just taken off from Pierce County-Thun Field airport here when the single-engine of his Cessna stopped running at about 150 feet elevation, sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told the Tacoma News Tribune.

Noel Gallagher caused a swine flu panic by sneezing. The Oasis rocker arrived in Venezuela with his bandmates this week and was amazed at how people are reacting to the outbreak of the disease - and was even more shocked when he received a worried telephone call from his mother.

He wrote on his blog: "It's all got a bit mad over here. This swine flu malarky is freaking people out. Landed at Crack'a**e airport yesterday. All the ground staff are wearing those little white face masks! ALL OF THEM. It was like something out of a Stephen King novel. I suddenly feel quite naked without one."

Hackers have opened Salma Hayek's mobile phone e-mail account and posted screenshots of its contents on the Internet to reveal the lifestyle of the rich and famous Hollywood actress.

Unknown hackers posted instructions on how to open shayek@mac.com, Hayek's personal Apple MobileMe e-mail address, on the image bulletin board 4chan.org.

A distressed passenger has forced open the door of a small charter plane flying at 23,000 feet over Cambridge Bay in Canada's arctic region of Nunavut and jumped out without a parachute.

Two pilots and a female passenger failed to prevent the 20-year-old Nunavut man from opening the door and leaping out the Beechcraft King Air 200 on Wednesday. The plane was forced to make an emergency landing in an airport in Cambridge Bay, according to police who met the pilots and the passenger on the ground.