The former Korean Air executive on trial after an in-flight tantrum over a serving of nuts defended her actions as the result of devotion to work in the final day of testimony.

A Korean Air flight attendant has described being insulted and shamed by the airline's executive who ordered him to be removed and the plane returned over macadamia nuts, and then being asked to lie about the incident to investigators.

Forget dust-ups over reclining seats in economy class. There’s a new and exclusive twist on inflight anger: Nut rage in first class.

Korean Air has apologised for inconveniencing passengers after the daughter of its chairman ordered a crew member off a flight for serving bagged nuts in the first class cabin.

Former investigators into an air crash off the coast of New York in 1996, which killed 230 people, want the case reopened over claims there was an FBI cover-up.

The first crossing of the United States by a solar-powered plane is expected to start in just over a month, its creators said, as they make final preparations for an attempt two years from now at the first round-the-world flight without any fuel.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed calls for a fresh inquiry into the conviction of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi in the wake of his death.

An Aer Lingus flight from the US to Dublin has been forced to divert to New York because of a technical fault.

Pope Benedict XVI said he was “deeply ashamed” of the clergy sex abuse scandal that has rocked the American church.

The last column of the World Trade Centre left standing after the September 11 attacks will be the first piece of the Twin Towers to return to Ground Zero, memorial officials said today.

A Guyanese suspect in an alleged plot to attack New York's John F Kennedy Airport surrendered to police today in Trinidad, a police official said.

Rapper and actor DMX was arrested on charges that he and another man tried to steal a car in a parking lot at John F Kennedy Airport in New York, authorities said.

An Italian Boeing 777 200 aircraft has had to divert to Shannon airport after the crew discovered a crack in the aircraft's windscreen.

A LEITRIM footballer who joked about having a bomb in his luggage has been found guilty of disorderly conduct by a New York court.

John F Kennedy airport in New York was at the centre of a security scare after reports of radioactive material on a Russian passenger jet.

Investigators have found the flight data recorder that could yield clues about the final seconds of the American Airlines crash in New York that killed more than 260 people.

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said yesterday’s plane crash in the city could have been ‘‘far worse’’ given that the American Airlines jet crashed into a residential area.

The death toll from the New York jet crash today rose to at least 265 as investigators began studying the wreckage of the plane.

Kleig lights - the kind of lights used at ground zero at the trade center - have been brought to the Rockaway Beach section of Queens so recovery workers could work into the night.

Investigators were last night studying the wreckage of a packed passenger jet to find out why it crashed into a New York neighbourhood with the feared loss of over 250 lives.

A British Airways Concorde has landed at New York's John F Kennedy Airport.

Air France Concorde has landed safely at New York’s John F Kennedy Airport.

None of the men arrested at a New York airport were terrorists attempting a repeat of Tuesday’s hijackings, it was revealed today.

Eight people were today arrested at airports in New York, one of them for posing as a pilot.