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The family of a man accused of stealing a turboprop plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and crashing it into an island in the Puget Sound on Friday evening said they are in “complete shock” at what happened.

A Southwest Airlines flight from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Dallas Love Field made an emergency landing Tuesday in Philadelphia after an engine suffered serious damage.

The Washington Post brings up an embarrassing little detail that may need to be cleared up before the historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un can take place: Kim may not have an airplane capable of crossing the Pacific to attend a meeting in Europe, at least not without an embarrassing number of refueling stops.

Jennifer Lawrence was clearly excited about the Philadelphia Eagles’s chances for victory ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl LII, as the actress apparently over an airplane loudspeaker system to lead a chant for the team — but it looks like the Passengers star’s fellow passengers were not amused.

Federal prosecutors say a registered sex offender inappropriately touched a sleeping woman seated next to him during a May flight from Tel Aviv to New Jersey.

TEL AVIV – A giant banner proclaiming Israel’s solidarity with Orlando following the terrorist attack that left 49 people dead was flown from a plane over the area of the Pulse nightclub on Monday, Algemeiner reported.

London (AFP) – A British Airways plane struck an object believed to be a drone as it was coming in for landing at Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, police said. An investigation has been launched into the incident, which follows a

Minnesota resident Hanad Mustofe Musse pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring with no fewer than eight individuals to travel to Syria and provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organization ISIS/ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/the Levant) using federal aid funds.

It looks as if we have an answer to one of this morning’s lingering questions about Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who evidently seized control of his plane and drove it into the Alps, killing 150 people. Lufthansa earlier divulged that Lubitz took a long break from his pilot training. Now the UK Daily Mail has more details about that episode, saying he suspended training in 2008 “because he was suffering from depression and burnout.”

French authorities released much new information about the horrible Germanwings crash in the Alps this morning, but some vital questions remain unanswered. Why is the French prosecutor so firmly convinced that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately crashed the plane?

Conrad Hilton, the younger brother of hotel heiress Paris Hilton, was arrested in Los Angeles Tuesday for acting out on a trans-Atlantic flight back in July, 2014.