Most Air Passengers Not Screened for Bombs
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Even with all the security gains since the Sept. 11 attacks, most airline passengers in the United States aren't screened for explosives before boarding a plane.
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Carriers in Indonesia, Russia and Africa on no-fly list in crackdown on 'flying coffins'.
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Foreign diplomats and top Nigerian officials will no longer be exempt from security searches before they board flights at Nigeria's airports, Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode said.
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A U.S. bomber mistakenly flew with at least five nuclear warheads over the United States last week, but the Air Force on Wednesday said the flight never threatened public safety.
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The Atlanta lawyer with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis who crisscrossed the Atlantic on commercial jets last month was not added to a U.S. no-fly list until at least two hours after he reentered the country by car from Canada, according to congressional investigators.
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It was not clear who was responsible for the bombs, none of which was big enough to cause major damage to the buildings. &quot;The government is asking the people not to touch any packages and to call the police if they find them.
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Only 34 people have died in U.S. commercial airline crashes in the past three years, making it one of the safest periods in aviation history even as more Americans than ever travel by air.
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US military flights carrying bombs to Israel will no longer use any civilian airports in the UK, the BBC learns.
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Safety measures have still not been introduced on some military aircraft, two years after a crash killed 10 servicemen, the BBC learns.
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Somewhere in the world, there's a navy blue suitcase with a small pack of explosives tucked in its side pocket. Four days after police at Charles de Gaulle Airport slipped some plastic explosives into a random passenger's bag as part of an exercise for sniffer dogs, it is still missing &#151; and authorities are stumped and embarrassed.
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The Department of Homeland Security's system for screening airline passengers for their terrorist risk may not be perfect, but as long as it doesn't break the law, it's a good resource for customs officials, says columnist Ira Winkler.
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Nine Russians are still missing following the deadly car bomb attacks on tourist resorts along the Egyptian-Israeli border which left 33 people dead last week, including at least one Russian national, Russia's consul in Egypt said.
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WASHINGTON - U.S. officials got a wake-up call last month about the need to screen airline passengers for explosives when two Chechen women apparently carried bombs onto two Russian planes and blew them up...
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Russian bombers which this month resumed their Soviet-era practice of flying long-range patrols near NATO airspace are not carrying nuclear weapons, a senior air force commander said on Monday.
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X-ray machines that screen airline passengers' shoes cannot detect explosives, according to a Homeland Security Department report on aviation screening.
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Most U.S. visitors are not fully screened for terrorist or criminal ties, according to a Justice Department watchdog. The reason: Bush administration agency infighting over such things as how many fingers to print.
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Officials at John F. Kennedy Airport   in New York said on Wednesday there were no reports of any   explosions or unusual incidents at the airport, contradicting   rumors that had been affecting the financial markets.