When aviation missionary Gaston Ntambo receives a call for an emergency medical flight in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he must first get permission to fly to neighboring Zambia to obtain fuel.

BANGOR, Maine - Officials diverted a US Airways jet to Maine after a French passenger travelling from Paris to North Carolina handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, prompting concerns about possible terrorism.

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.