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A JetBlue flight from Santo Domingo suffered a fire near the windshield of the Embraer 190 airplane and landed safely at Orlando International Airport Thursday.
The flight was operating from the Dominican Republic to Orlando.
There are no reports of injuries, and the flight crew was able to use a fire extinguisher to out out the flames.
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Delta Flight 1526 was forced to return to Orlando after taking off and encountering an engine problem with its right engine, with initial reports stating the engine failed.
The flight had 150 people on board and landed safely back at Orlando International Airport without incident.
The plane was airborne for about 11 minutes before the engine problem was discovered on the MD-88 which was suppose to arrive and New York's LaGuardia airport at 10:36am, earlier this morning.
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Police in Orlando have arrested 32-year-old Sean J. Kelly after his actions forced a British Airways flight to divert into Orlando International Airport while enroute from Cancun to London.
According to statements made by the flight crew, Kelly had been drinking Stolichnaya vodka when he became billigerent during the flight and refused to comply to the air crews instructions and then spit in a flight attendants face.
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As airlines cancelled flights and kept aircraft out of the New England area because of a strong winter storm and blizzard conditions, United and Delta have been moving aircraft into Orlando to wait out the storm. Today's high in Orlando was 80 and mostly sunny.
While many planes won't actually sit in Orlando the entire time of the winter storm, more planes will move through Orlando for extended stops and move traffic through Orlando in some cases.
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A Korean woman, Hyunjoo Kim, was arrested yesterday after she allegedly grabbed a TSA employee and pushed that employee and slapped another.
The incident started after she underwent a pat-down and was told she can not bring her over-sized lotion bottle past security, at that point the woman became upset and starting yelling and eventually took action against the TSA employees.
The woman was arrested and booked into the Orange County jail in Orlando and has since been released.
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Orlando International Airports is now among the top 10 airports in the nation with TSA agents caught stealing items belonging to passengers.
In a recent undercover operation conducted by ABC News, an iPad was intentionally left behind at Orlando International Airport and a camera was recording the TSA agents who handled the device.
After 15 days, the iPad still had not been turned into Lost and Found at the airport. The iPad was clearly marked on its case with the name, address and phone number of the "owner", and no contact was ever made.
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In another possible TSA blunder, John Gross of Indian has claimed that while passing through the TSA security checkpoint at the Orlando International Airport, MCO, a female TSA agent used her finger to sift through the ashes and in the process spilled about a third of his remains onto the floor.
Gross was carrying the remains of his grandfather, Mario Mark Marcaletti, in a sealed container marked "Human Remains", and tried to explain to the female TSA agent what it was before she opened the jar and subsequently spilled portions of the remains onto the floor.
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Orlando International Airport, MCO, has said that it will be meeting with various bodies including Southwest, Delta, United, American, US Airways, and "All Aboard Florida" along with its Florida East Coast Railway affiliate to discuss adding a train station at the airport that would run from Orlando to Miami. Also in the plans are the resurrection of OIA's south terminal as growth nears the maximum capacity the airport can handle smoothly said airport officials.
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49 year old Glenn Stephen Hansen has pleaded guilty to pointing a laser beam at airplanes departing Orlando International Airport, MCO, and now faces up to five years in prison. Prosecutors say Hansen aimed his laser pointer at departing aircraft 23 times between January 2012 and March 2012.
During court proceedings, it was alleged that some departing aircraft had to take evasive action as a result of Hansen's laser, however, they were unable to provide any evidence of that, or find a pilot willing to attest to that in court.
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The Orlando International Airport (OIA, airport code MCO) was ranked the #1 favorite airport by Tripadvisor.com and has seen significant increase in international passenger traffic in 2012 so far. The biggest increase was from Brazil, with an astonishing 108% increase over last year and Canadians added a modest 13% increase over the same period last year. The British still dominate international arrivals, with over 1 million per year. Domestic traffic remained flat compared to last year.