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(West Hartford-WTNH, July 15, 2005 6:30 PM) _ Three people face multiple charges after someone tried to steal a FedEx delivery truck. The FedEx driver went to make a delivery behind a home on Forest Drive and when he came back the suspect was in his truck, trying to drive off, police said. The FedEx driver jumped in and during a struggle the truck veered back and forth on the quiet street. The truck finally stopped after it jumped a curb and came to rest on a neighbor's lawn. The suspect jumped out and took off. Several people saw the...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Thirteen cargo handlers at San Francisco International Airport were charged Friday with stealing $200,000 worth of computers, cameras and other goods from mail bound for U.S. soldiers stationed in Japan, authorities said Friday. The 13 defendants, employees of cargo staffing company Aeroground, were arrested Thursday and early Friday and arraigned on charges of stealing and conspiring to steal U.S. mail, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco. "We will not tolerate abuse of our mail system, and we will make every effort to ensure that postal customers and our postal system are protected and...

SINGAPORE, March 10 (Kyodo) - The United States agreed Thursday to help Singapore install special equipment at its seaports to detect hidden shipments of nuclear and other radioactive materials. The agreement inked by representatives of the two governments in Singapore paves the way for U.S. provision of the specialized radiation detection technology to the city-state and training of local law enforcement personnel to operate it. ''Singapore will be the first country in Southeast Asia to use this type of detection system in cooperation with the United States,'' according to a joint statement issued by the two sides. The United States...

KHARTOUM, Feb 3 (AFP) - A Sudanese cargo plane crashed in a desert area outside the capital Khartoum on Thursday, killing all seven crew on board, most of them Russians, the official SUNA news agency said. The plane was flying in from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates when it plunged to the ground shortly before it was due to land in Khartoum. Six Russian crew members and their Sudanese interpreter were killed, SUNA said. Civil aviation ministry chief Othman al-Badri Abdallah said the plane had run out of fuel according to initial reports from the control tower, the agency...

ATLANTA, Jan 10, 2005 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- United Parcel Service Inc. has ordered 10 of Airbus' new A380 super-jumbo jets as the shipping giant moves to expand the capacity of its air network to accommodate strong international growth.

WASHINGTON - The Air Force is making more cargo flights over Iraq (news - web sites) to keep Army transport trucks off the country's dangerous roads, accepting the increased risk to planes and added cost to reduce the threat on the ground, officials said Tuesday. During the last month, the Air Force reorganized the operations of its cargo lifters and is now flying about 450 tons of cargo around Iraq daily, said Lt. Col. Mike Caldwell, an Air Force spokesman. That's an increase of about 100 tons a day over its previous average, he said. Most of the missions are...

"WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government unveiled a plan Wednesday to tighten air cargo security by checking the backgrounds of workers who handle freight and restricting access to sections of airports used for loading and unloading cargo. The long-awaited plan from the Transportation Security Administration also requires cargo airlines to screen people who board their planes. Freight forwarders - agents who accept packages and arrange shipment - must make sure cargo doesn't include bombs, guns or stowaways. However, the plan contains few details about how the TSA expects the freight industry to accomplish those goals. "These proposals would fill gaps...

On 22nd November 2003, a DHL A300 B4 had been airborne from Baghdad Airport for just over 3 minutes when the calm in the cockpit was shattered by the sound of a loud bang. At about 8,000ft an explosion was heard, followed by a cacophony of aural warnings and visual displays showing a master warning on all flight controls. Unbeknown to the crew at that time, the aircraft had been struck by a missile.

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - President Bush on Monday told the Pentagon to make two U.S. transport planes available to aid African peacekeeping forces seeking to end a humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan. A White House statement issued as Bush campaigned in Florida, said the president had directed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to make the planes available to the African Union, or AU, for two weeks, starting at the end of October. The military planes will help transport fresh troops that part of a 4,500-soldier contingent to be deployed to Darfur by the African Union by...

A Boeing 747-200 aircraft with seven crew members aboard crashed Thursday at Halifax International Airport. All seven aboard the jet, which is owned by MK Airlines Ltd. of Britain and Ghana, were killed, say Canadian authorities. The aircraft was loaded with fish, lobsters and lawn tractors, they say. Parts of the 747 are made at Boeing Wichita. Boeing Seattle spokeswoman Liz Verdier says a three-person team has been dispatched to the scene. Boeing usually dispatches an investigation team to the site of crashes involving its jets, especially one involving its largest product, the 747 model. Verdier says it has been...

Miami (dpa) - A 20-year-old Cuban woman arrived Wednesday in Miami in a box transported by delivery service DHL and immediately asked for political asylum. The woman was being interrogated by customs and immigrations officials, a spokesperson said. Employees at DHL were surprised when the young woman emerged from the box, sent from Cuba via Nassau in the Bahamas. ``Suddenly the box opened and the young woman ran out,'' an employee said. The box was perforated with holes to allow her to breathe. Under U.S. laws Cuban refugees who make it to land are allowed to stay in the United...

TEHRAN (MNA) -- During the latest season of excavations of the northern gate of Takht-e Suleiman, an ancient Zoroastrian fire temple located in northwestern Iran, the stamps of two seals were discovered which indicate that objects entered Takht-e Suleiman from other regions with special tags attached to them which seem to be advertisements. They signify that an early form of advertising was being practiced during the Sassanid era (224-642 C.E.), Yusef Moradi, the head of the excavation team, said on Friday. “The team began its excavations in early August and found the stamps of two seals at the upper levels...

Secrets of an ancient Persian armada sunk off the coast of Greece 2500 years ago are being dredged up by modern archaeologists. A team from Greece, Canada and the United States has just completed a second expedition to retrieve artefacts from 300 ships of the Persian King Darius that were wrecked in a storm off the Mt Athos Peninsula, northern Greece, in 492BC or 493BC. Aucklanders will be among the first to hear the results today when three of the expedition leaders present their findings in a free public lecture at Auckland University. In two trips so far, last October...

Culture clash in the South Seas By Nick Squires BBC correspondent in Sydney The mysterious John Frum movement has existed peacefully on an island in the South Pacific for decades; but a violent feud has now broken out between its followers and a new Christian movement. Sitting beneath a tattered Stars and Stripes flag hanging limply from a bamboo pole, Jack Yahlu recalls the bloody jungle battle which shattered the peace of this little known corner of the South Pacific. "They wanted to kill us and we wanted to kill them," 27-year-old Yahlu told me. "We used slingshots, axes,...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under its new chairman, Richard Lugar, should make its first order of business an inquiry into President Bush's maladroit and shortsighted decision-making in the So San affair. Our National Security Agency, to its credit, spotted the movement of 15 Scud missiles and 85 drums of chemicals from a factory in North Korea to its secret loading aboard the freighter So San, and tracked the unflagged ship around the world to the Arabian Sea. The C.I.A. was unable to determine the customer of these offensive weapons, unreliable in military combat but useful in striking terror into...

Workers use heavy cable and floating barges to begin the righting of the Stellamare on Monday. It was almost imperceptible at first. Slowly and almost silently, the Stellamare started to move on Monday.It was 4 p.m. when two massive waterborne cranes began righting the Dutch-owned cargo ship that had lain on its side at the Port of Albany since capsizing Dec. 9 while a General Electric Co. generator was being loaded. By 4:07 p.m., the moving was done for the day and the 289-foot vessel was more than halfway upright, even farther than had been planned for the first...

CNBC reported that a Fed Ex plane crashed in Memphis, Tennessee... then returned a few minutes later reporting that there was no crash, but an engine on fire.

Three crew members remained missing this morning after a Dutch cargo ship listed and partially sank at the Port of Albany at about 3 p.m. Tuesday. The accident involving the Stellamare tossed several men into the icy waters of the Hudson River and prompted the Coast Guard to close the river, left the ship tilted at a 50-degree angle, and may have killed three seamen. It marks the city's worst maritime accident in decades.The ship's 18-man crew was loading the second of two General Electric generators, each weighing roughly 250 tons, when the boat listed to port, rolled and...

A Dutch cargo ship tipped over at a 45-degree angle in the frigid Hudson River while being loaded with steel turbines Tuesday, apparently trapping three crew members. Fifteen others were rescued, with some suffering hypothermia. The missing were believed to be inside the hull of the listing ship, Detective James Miller said. Divers were brought in. But officials said they did not immediately know if the vessel had filled with water.The ship had loaded 661 tons of steel turbines bound for Italy and Romania when the cargo apparently shifted, causing the ship to turn partly on its side, Mayor...

HEADLINE: Stowaway: 'This was my own plan'; Crate rider's statement to FBI contradicts his story to police, media SOURCE: Dallas Morning News BYLINE: DAVE LEVINTHAL BODY: The man who shipped himself from New York City to Dallas inside an air cargo crate repeatedly lied to police and media outlets about his bizarre journey during which he eluded security at five airports, according to documents obtained Friday. Charles D. McKinley originally told DeSoto police and media that he first flew Sept. 5 to Kentucky aboard a passenger airline and was duped by an accomplice into sealing himself in a crate. He...