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In this Sept. 26, 2006, file photo, knives of all sizes and types are piled in a box at the State of Georgia Surplus Property Division store in Tucker, Ga., and are just a few of the hundreds of items discarded at the security checkpoints of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport that will be for sale at the store. Flight attendants, pilots, federal air marshals and even insurance companies are part of a growing backlash to the Transportation Security Administration’s new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives and sports equipment like souvenir baseball bats and golf clubs onto planes. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)

Delta Air Lines CEO opposes new TSA policy on pocket knives

WASHINGTON -- The head of Delta Air Lines on Friday joined the growing opposition to the Transportation Security Administration's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives onto planes.

FILE - Anatoliy N. Baranovich (Police photo)

Ukrainian man indicted in SLC flight disruption

SALT LAKE CITY — A Ukrainian man who authorities say had been drinking heavily before he ran to the back of a Salt Lake City-bound Delta Air Lines plane and tried to open an emergency exit was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for disrupting the flight and attempting to bribe the FBI agents who arrested him.

Anatoliy N. Baranovich (police photo)

Man accused of disrupting Delta flight had been on 50-day drinking binge

SALT LAKE CITY — A Ukrainian man, hung over from a 50-day drinking binge, said he believed the wing of the airplane was on fire when he disrupted a Salt Lake City-bound Delta Air Lines flight and had to be wrestled to the floor by passengers, authorities allege in a criminal complaint.

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Man shouting in Russian disrupts SLC flight

SALT LAKE CITY — The FBI has arrested a man accused of disrupting a Delta Air Lines flight and damaging the airplane by running up the aisle shortly after landing and attempting to open an emergency exit.

In this Wednesday, Aug. 1 2012 photo, a Delta Air Lines grounds crew use a tug to push an airplane back from a gate at JFK International airport in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Bee swarm delays Delta flight

IMPERIAL, Pa. — A beekeeper says he had to be called into gather up a swarm of thousands of bees that delayed a Delta Air Lines flight from Pittsburgh International Airport to New York.

In this undated photo provided by Summit Orthopedics, Dr. Jack Drogt poses for a photo in his offices in St. Paul, Minn. Drogt is one of the five people who say they found sewing needles in their sandwiches on board Delta Air Lines flights. Drogt says he and his son William, 16, both found a needle in their turkey sandwiches. (AP Photo/Summit Orthopedics)

Florida family in the middle of Delta needles story

MANATEE, Fla. - Worldly attention was not what the Drogt family of Bradenton, Fla., anticipated when they returned home Sunday from a two-week family vacation to Amsterdam.

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Needles found in sandwiches on Delta flights

 

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Police at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport have opened a criminal investigation into how needles got into turkey sandwiches served to passengers on Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to the United States, a spokesman said Tuesday. The FBI also is investigating the incidents.

This photo from video provided by WLS-TV in Chicago shows fire and ambulance crews on the runway at Midway Airport after reports of a medical emergency that led to the quarantine of a Delta airplane Thursday, April 26, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/WLS-TV)

‘Bug bites’ lead to Delta flight being quarantined

CHICAGO — A Minnesota woman who caused a health scare aboard a Delta Airlines flight from Detroit — resulting in the plane being kept on the tarmac at Midway Airport for three hours — says it was all a misunderstanding over bug bites.

Plane headed to SLC lands in Nebraska for pregnant passenger

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- A plane had to make an emergency landing in western Nebraska because a pregnant passenger needed to get to a hospital.

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Phone left in restroom triggers Delta bomb scare

DUBLIN -- A Delta Air Lines flight bound for the United States made an emergency landing Monday in Dublin because a passenger left a cell phone plugged into a socket in one of the aircraft's restrooms, police and aviation authorities said.

David Alan Anderson entered a guilty plea to a single count of possessing a dangerous weapon Thursday in Salt Lake City.

Guilty plea in Utah airplane knife smuggling case

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah man accused of smuggling a knife onto an airplane and threatening to kill police has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in federal court.

Muslim clerics kicked off flight sue Delta

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Standing near the Delta Air Lines ticket counter at Memphis International Airport, Muslim cleric Masudur Rahman described what it felt like to be kicked off a flight earlier this year while traveling to a religious conference.

Delta pilot gets locked in john, causing terror scare

NEW YORK -- A pilot accidentally locked himself in the bathroom aboard a flight to New York City and touched off a brief hijacking terror scare that underscored the fears about air travel that still linger more than a decade after 9/11.

Delta plane lands safely after engine blows up

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Ginger Heath and her husband were returning home Thursday from a business trip in Austin, Texas, when she says their plane started to shake violently.

The plane had just taken off from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, and hadn't been in the air more than 10 minutes.

Heath, who lives in Monroe, said she looked out the window, then heard a "huge explosion" coming from the other side of the plane.

Tires on Delta flight deflate upon landing

SALT LAKE CITY -- Maintenance teams are examining a Delta Airlines plane after two of its tires deflated upon landing in Salt Lake City.

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