British Tornado fighter jets will shoot down aircraft in Irish airspace if they are hijacked by terrorists for a 9/11-style attack.

Six people believed to be responsible for the prison break by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, including the elusive Mexican drug lord's brother-in-law and the suspected mastermind of the escape, have been arrested.

ENGLAND: A couple who were still in shock from winning nearly £150,000 (€200,000) on the EuroMillions have described how they burst into tears when their dog uncovered a second winning ticket for the same draw.

Five people have died in a mid-air collision between two planes in Southern California.

The crew of a Dublin-bound Aer Lingus flight had to take evasive action to avoid a private jet that had entered the runway while they were taking off.

An F-16 fighter jet has smashed into a small plane over the US state of South Carolina, killing two and scattering plane parts and debris over a wide area.

An F-16 fighter jet and a small plane have collided in midair over South Carolina, raining down plane parts and debris.

Low cloud, poor visibility and mountain wave activity are factors that may have contributed to a fatal air crash in which two men and two dogs lost their lives last May.

At least four people are dead after a small plane crashed into a building at a Kansas airport, officials said.

Four people were killed when a small plane lost power after take-off and crashed into a flight-training building while trying to return to an airport in Kansas, US officials said.

Scientists at odds with authorities in wanting light, less costly, unmanned UAVs to ferry goods around our skies, says Thomas Grose

Famous for whale watching, and with a limit of 150 visitors at any one time, Lady Elliot is a castaway paradise island.

Pennsylvania lawyer’s ad starring smiling thugs draws criticism

On Saturday photographer Tim Telford snapped the heart stopping moment when a small aeroplane crashed into a landing skydiver near Tampa, Florida.

A teenager has described how he took the controls of a light plane for more than half an hour after the pilot passed out during a joy flight over rural Australia.

The Defence Forces Chief of Staff is hoping to replace the Air Corps’s ageing fleet of Cessnas and purchase a third new ship for the Naval Service within the next five years.

Remember the story of two planes full of skydivers that collided in mid-air. Turns out they were wearing helmet cams.

A training aircraft that crashed killing its two occupants was running dangerously low on fuel — leading investigators to recommend that all registered flight training schools be required to do additional on-board fuel safety checks before departure.

The aircraft flown in a fatal crash last month did not have any technical defects that contributed to the accident, investigators have found.

The engine on a light aircraft cut out before it crashed killing two friends, air accident investigators have revealed.

The preliminary investigation into a plane crash in which two men died in Co Offaly last month has determined the aircraft had no technical defects.

Engine failure is being investigated as the primary cause of a light aircraft crash which killed a flight instructor and a trainee pilot.

Air accident investigators are to examine whether a flight instructor and trainee pilot killed in a light aircraft crash were alerted to a problem shortly after take-off.

Two men were killed after a light aircraft crashed in Co Offaly yesterday, only minutes after take-off.

The two men on board the aircraft which crashed in Co Offaly today have been pronounced dead at the scene this evening.

Paramedics are at the scene of a plane crash near Birr, Co. Offaly, where it is believed two men have died.

Sergei Sokolov, the Soviet defence minister fired by the Politburo after a German teenager landed his plane on Moscow’s Red Square in the 1980s, has died.

A MASSIVE fire engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine in an Arctic shipyard yesterday, but there has been no radiation leak or injuries, officials said.

FLYING over Cork and beyond for the past 40 years, private pilot Pat Punch has seen not only the landscape beneath him change dramatically but the aviation industry too.

A dedicated 24-7 air ambulance service is to operate from Dublin Airport from tomorrow.

A cloud of volcanic ash which has caused chaos for air travellers spread to Germany today, forcing the closure of Berlin’s airport and threatening to disrupt European flights for days.

A liver transplant operation put in jeopardy when a private jet carrying the donor organ crashed on a British airport runway went ahead successfully last night, a hospital said today.

A JEALOUS schoolteacher who doctored the parachute of a love rival causing her to plunge to her death was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday.

At least three Britons died in Peru after their light aircraft crashed near one of the country’s most famous tourist attractions, it emerged today.

Four British tourists were killed in a light aircraft crash near Peru’s Nazca Lines, police said today.

A North Korean colonel who went on European shopping sprees for his country’s rulers has told how the late dictator Kim Il Sung lived in luxury while ordinary people struggled to survive in the impoverished communist nation.

All six people aboard a light aircraft that plunged into the sea near Corsica have been found alive.

Rescuers have so far found two survivors after a plane with six people aboard plunged into the sea today near Corsica.

REGIONAL emergency services say a small tourist plane has crashed in a field in southern France, killing all five people on board.

Regional emergency services say a small tourist plane has crashed in a field in southern France, killing all five people aboard.

AN air traffic controller who cleared an aircraft to land on a runway where a Aer Lingus jet was preparing for take-off is back at work after having his licence to provide the service temporarily suspended.

An amateur pilot guided to the ground by the RAF after suffering a stroke and going blind at 15,000 feet today met the man who helped him land safely.