LOS ANGELES -- A faulty computer steering system that caused metal lugs to wear out is blamed for forcing an emergency landing of a JetBlue flight at Los Angeles International Airport in 2005. The final federal report on the sideways-wheel says the nose wheel steered left and right inside the plane while it was in flight.  That eventually destroyed metal lugs which control the wheel's ...

THAILAND'S government has agreed to declare a state of emergency at two Bangkok airports occupied by protesters, as an escalating political crisis set off swirling rumours of a coup.

An emergency Qantas flight will fly home hundreds of Australians from Phuket tonight.