More than 30 years after hooded gunmen pulled a $6m airport heist dramatised in the hit Martin Scorsese movie Goodfellas, an elderly reputed mobster was arrested at his New York City home yesterday and charged in the robbery and a 1969 murder.

A Madrid-bound Delta Airlines passenger plane has been forced to return to New York after suspicious wires were found in a toilet.

When some of the cast and filmmakers of iconic film Goodfellas reunited eight years ago for a traditional sit-down dinner, the theme of the night was “breaking bread, not legs”.

New Yorkers lined their city’s waterfront today to welcome the space shuttle Enterprise as it sailed up the Hudson River to its new home aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.

AN 84-year-old New York grandmother says she was injured and humiliated during a strip-search at a city airport.

Haggard and unshaven after a weekend in jail, the chief of the International Monetary Fund was denied release on bail on charges of trying to rape a hotel maid as allegations of other, similar attacks by Dominique Strauss-Kahn began to emerge.

The first ball in the GAA's championship summer will be kicked this weekend across the Atlantic as New York host reigning Connacht champions Roscommon at Gaelic Park.

Blizzard conditions have marooned thousands of air, rail and road travellers on the US East Coast, shutting down airports and rail lines for a second day, stranding buses on buried roads and forcing New York subway commuters to spend a cold night in unheated trains.

A former member of Guyana's parliament and another man were convicted of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F Kennedy International Airport in a plan authorities said was intended to dwarf the September 11 2001 attacks.

In the days before his failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in the heart of Times Square, the American suspect, who had recently returned from his native Pakistan, did a dry run, a law enforcement official said today.

American Airlines, which has added flights to India and China in recent years, is set to launch its first service from the United States to Moscow, opening a new front in its competition with Delta Air Lines Inc.

AN INFORMANT who helped break up an alleged plot to bomb a fuel pipeline feeding New York’s busiest airport was so convincing to the suspects they thanked God he was with them, federal authorities said.

A convicted drug dealer who agreed to pose as a potential terrorist among a shadowy group accused of plotting to blow up John F Kennedy International Airport secretly fed information to US investigators in exchange for a lighter sentence.

GROWING lines of irritated travellers snaked through US airports yesterday as people waited hours to reach security checkpoints, then had to dump their water bottles, suntan lotion and even toothpaste following the discovery of a terror plot in Britain.

GROWING lines of irritated travellers snaked through US airports yesterday as people waited hours to reach security checkpoints, then had to dump their water bottles, suntan lotion and even toothpaste following the discovery of a terror plot in Britain.

August 2, 2005: More than 300 passengers and crew escape death at Toronto’s Pearson Airport after Air France flight 358 from Paris skids off the runway, plunges into a ravine and bursts into flames.

“A CROWD of us was going along the Shepherds Bush Road when out of a lane came a chap with a donkey — just the sort of donkey and just the sort of cart they have at home,” Michael Collins explained, recalling his days in London.

HUNDREDS of transatlantic airline passengers faced delays and cancellations over the weekend as snowstorms swept across large areas of the US.

Argentina’s foreign minister was detained and questioned at Miami International Airport after he allegedly requested permission to enter the cockpit of a plane to question pilots about why the flight was delayed.

I AM appalled by the proposal for a management buyout of Aer Lingus. This flies in the face of honesty and fair trading.

Prosecutors filed drug and weapons charges against US rapper DMX, a day after he was arrested for allegedly impersonating a federal agent and harassing another man in an airport car park.

The body of a man was found in the wheel compartment of a British Airways plane that had flown from Heathrow Airport, London to John F Kennedy International Airport, New York, authorities said today.

A plane bound for London returned to New York’s Kennedy Airport early today after a flight attendant found a threatening note on a seat in the aircraft.

FOR some it was their first time, for others it was the umpteenth time, but for all it would prove the very last time they would ever fly on Concorde.

Concorde has completed its last passenger flight from New York to London.

The world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft bowed out in style today.

LEITRIM footballer Ciaran Murray has pledged to return to New York and face the full rigours of the law for the ‘silly’ bomb prank at JFK Airport which went disastrously wrong.

The US Transport Department today tentatively agreed to allow British Airways and American Airlines to work together to set rates and routes and sell each other’s tickets.

Neither turbulence from another jet nor pressure placed on the rudder by a desperate pilot should have been enough to snap off the tail of Flight 587, aviation experts have said.

Janet Barasso ran blindly through thick, black smoke with her two sons yesterday and feared the worst after an American Airlines jetliner crashed just a block from her home.

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

Transatlantic flight schedules are expected to return to normal tomorrow after a day of disruption caused by latest US air disaster.

A jetliner crash in New York today gave Wall Street a sharp reminder that more terrorist attacks are possible and prompted shaken investors to refrain from any major moves.

Tony Blair will travel on Concorde to Washington next week on the first day the supersonic jet flies passengers from Britain since last year's air disaster.