A Pakistani woman whose daughter’s carry-on luggage caused an airport to shut down for nine and a half hours says it was her ethnic background, not a few bottles of suspicious liquids, that set off security officials.

A West Virginia airport terminal was evacuated tonight after two bottles of liquid found in a woman’s carry-on luggage twice tested positive for explosives.

Two ground crew from at the Charlotte Douglas Airport in North Carolina are missing after a commuter plane crashed there.

In the latest move to improve safety in the skies, US airline, United, today became the first major carrier to announce plans to install stun guns in the cockpits of all its planes.