An escaped monkey delayed a Beijing-bound flight for four hours at New York's JFK Airport on Thursday.

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- An event was held Thursday evening to honor air medical crews who have died on the job. 

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.