LaGuardia airport terminal evacuated in NYC, police bomb squad arrest man and search bagNEW YORK — Air travelers at New York’s LaGuardia Airport found themselves in a mess of delays and missed connections Saturday after a bomb scare involving a homeless man. Death of Continental Airlines pilot could renew debate over US age limits in the cockpitDALLAS — The death of the 60-year-old captain of a Continental Airlines jetliner as he flew 247 passengers across the Atlantic could spark a new debate over age limits in the cockpit. Hearing into Buffalo crash exposed pilot pay, scheduling issues to traveling publicCLARENCE, N.Y. — Long-suffering pilots for commuter airlines say it’s about time that Washington and passengers alike pay attention to the cockpit, after a federal hearing into the deadly crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 exposed pilots who may have been exhausted, under-trained — and paid less than the bus or cab drivers who’d ferried their passengers to the airport. `We may end up in Hudson’, said pilot before crashingNEW YORK - Cockpit recordings of the ill-fated US Airways plane that crashed in the Hudson River last month reveal that the pilot calmly advised air traffic controllers, ‘We’re going to be in the Hudson’. |