AS the freed marines and sailors lined up to face the world’s media, the enormity of their ordeal appeared to hit them.

Passengers today made the best of an uncertain situation as British Airways tried to clear the Heathrow flight backlog.

A major search of a Greek airliner was under way tonight after the plane was forced to divert to Stansted airport for an emergency landing following a bomb threat.

At least 114 servicemen were killed when the world’s biggest helicopter, probably carrying almost double its permitted load, crashed outside a Russian base in Chechnya, state television reported today.

A China Airlines passenger jet dumped its fuel after takeoff and returned to Taiwan for an emergency landing today when one of its engines vibrated strongly.

Paramedics said the woman flight attendant was knifed and shot to death and two men were gunned down.