A stolen private plane caused a temporary shutdown of the airspace over Vancouver International Airport, one the busiest in Canada, on Tuesday. We do have an aircraft that has been hijacked and is in the vicinity of the airport,

Police said they received a report that a Cessna 172 "had been hijacked from the Vancouver Island area and was entering into airspace near Vancouver International Airport."

We do have an aircraft that has been hijacked and is in the vicinity of the airport,” a tower controller warned other aircraft.

Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree in yet another mishap near a busy South Florida airport. “It was nothing short of heroic,” Angelo Castillo, the mayor of Pembroke Pines in Broward County, said Tuesday.

The National Transportation Safety Board said the Cessna T337G was on approach to North Perry Airport when it "crashed for unknown reasons" about a mile short of the runway.

All four people aboard a small plane that crashed shortly after taking off from London Southend Airport are dead, police said Monday.