New York – An escaped monkey delayed a Beijing-bound flight for four hours at New York's JFK Airport on Thursday. The monkey escaped its crate in the cargo hold of an Air China Boeing 747 scheduled to depart at 4:50pm, Port Authority police said.

A French citizen accused of causing a US Airways flight to be diverted to Maine by claiming she had a surgically implanted device will soon be headed back home.

Security concerns divert US Airways jet after passenger hands note to flight attendant saying she had surgically implanted device