On The Fly…

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The body of a man was found in the wheel well of a British Airways plane after a flight from London to Kennedy Airport. The unidentified man in his 30s was the second dead stowaway to be found in less than a week at Kennedy. Last week, a man in his 20s was discovered in the wheel well of a plane that had arrived from Jamaica…

Three young men rescued from the wreck of their Cessna in the mountains east of Vancouver, British Columbia, likely owe their lives to a fortunately timed military exercise. The plane crashed near an area where members of a Canadian Armed Forces search-and-rescue unit were training. They parachuted to the crash site within an hour of a distress signal being intercepted by an overflying airliner…

The pilot and passenger in a Bellanca Viking died Thursday in a crash into two houses in Dallas. Both homes were set on fire but no one on the ground was hurt. The pilot, Dr. David Knowles, apparently reported instrument problems before the crash, which occurred in heavy overcast and rain…

An Indiana flight school is expanding to meet increased demand for flight training. Eagle Aircraft is building a $500,000 training facility at Valparaiso. The company had a record year in 2003, training more than 50 new pilots.

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