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The body of a man, who witnesses said was tossed from a plane, landed on a hospital roof in Mexico’s northern Sinaloa state on Wednesday, according to a public health service official in the region which is home to notorious drug traffickers. Sinaloa’s deputy attorney general, Jesus Martin Robles, said a body found on the hospital roof showed injuries that appeared to be related to a strong impact. The public health service official said two more bodies were reported to have been found in the town, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) south of Culiacán, the state capital. Local media reported...

Passengers revolt after being told to fly on jet with its wing tip missingBy DANIEL BOFFEY - More by this author » Last updated at 21:43pm on 3rd November 2007  An airline crew faced a rebellion when they told passengers they were going to fly on a jet that had lost its wing tip in a runway crash.  The SriLankan Airlines customers had been on the Airbus A340 a day earlier when it sliced through a wing of a stationary British Airways 747 at Heathrow, delaying departure by 24 hours. So they were amazed to be boarding the same...

BALTIMORE -- A baggage handler at Baltimore-Washington International Airport yesterday was sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to his role in an identity-theft scheme that netted more than $7 million. Tearful and repentant, Kehinde Akintola Oladapo begged the court for leniency after his attorney described him as a "small cog in the wheel" and a "mouse in a big city." U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis agreed with that description of Oladapo. "He's hardly the mastermind," he said. "Fact is, Mr. Oladapo was used." The sentence was less than what was recommended under the federal sentencing guidelines, but...

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Does the notion of air travel conjure images of gate agents bickering over carry-on bags, harried flight attendants and adult-sized bodies crammed into a child-sized seats? Well, guess what: on some airlines, a flight is a trip to be enjoyed, not endured. A massive survey released Thursday names airlines that customers actually like to fly. The poll, conducted by London-based consultancy Skytrax, asked people to grade the world's airlines according to a broad variety of criteria. Taken over the course of a year, it tallied more than 12 million responses, from citizens of 94 countries. The...

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