American Airlines ex-mechanic Paul Belloisi gets 9 years prison for smuggling cocaine hidden under cockpit of JFK-bound flight
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American Airlines ex-mechanic Paul Belloisi gets 9 years prison for smuggling cocaine hidden under cockpit of JFK-bound flight

ByNews Polite

A former American Airlines aircraft mechanic was sentenced on Friday to nine years in prison after being convicted of trying to smuggle cocaine hidden beneath the cockpit of a flight to New York from Jamaica. Paul Belloisi, 56, of Smithtown, New York, was sentenced by US District Judge Dora Irizarry in…

Flight attendant forced to hold up toilet door that came loose minutes into 16-hour flight to New York
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Flight attendant forced to hold up toilet door that came loose minutes into 16-hour flight to New York

ByNews Polite

This must have left her down in the dumps. A Cathy Pacific flight attendant was left with a loo-ny job on a 16-hour flight to New York this week — holding up a bathroom door after it broke minutes into the trip. The bathroom door came off its hinges just…

JFK Airport power outage forces 16-hour flight from New Zealand to make U-turn
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JFK Airport power outage forces 16-hour flight from New Zealand to make U-turn

ByNews Polite

A power outage at JFK Airport forced a New Zealand flight to divert its travel plans during its eight-hour journey to the Big Apple. International flights in JFK’s Terminal 1 were brought to a standstill Thursday when a fire caused a major power disruption. Travelers were required to travel to…

JFK Airport JetBlue flight evacuated after laptop fire
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JFK Airport JetBlue flight evacuated after laptop fire

ByNews Polite

A New York-bound JetBlue flight from Barbados was jolted by more than the drastic temperature drop Saturday evening — when the plane was forced to evacuate at JFK International Airport due to a “smoking laptop.” The aircraft had just rolled into Terminal 5 when an airline worker noticed the overheated…