According to this San Antonio Express-News report, witnesses saw a Mexican military helicopter cross over the Rio Grande and into Texas on Tuesday. The aircraft, believed to have a Mexican navy insignia on it, traveled at least 1 mile into U.S. territory near the town of Falcon Village.

There was a bomb scare on a Delhi to Bangalore Indigo Airlines flight today. Press Trust of India (PTI) reports that Delhi airport police received information that a bomb was on board the plane. Once it landed at Bangalore's Bengaluru International Airport the plane was evacuated and searched. Police told PTI that no explosives were found.

The Union representing British Airways flight attendants announced on Friday (3/12) its intention to strike over two consecutive weekends in March.

Unite says that walkouts are planned March 20 - 23, and March 27 - 30. And that future labor action could be taken after April 14.

It is being reported that Unite's decision has forced British Airways has withdraw its latest compromise proposal.

Christine Fox, director of the Defense Department's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office, testified Thursday before the Senate Armed Services committee and told senators that the DOD's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is expected to breach the Nunn-McCurdy limits by greater than fifty percent when measured against the original acquisition program baseline (APB) established in 2001.

Fox's prepared statement can be found on the Senate Armed Services website here (89 KB PDF).

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued two Marine Corps pilots Wednesday at 6:15 p.m. after the pair were forced to eject from their F/A-18D Hornet approximately 35-miles off the coast of St. Helena Sound, South Carolina.

It is being reported that a US Airways flight that had just taken off from Rochester airport in New York Thursday morning was forced to return to the airport after striking a number of geese at 2,000 feet. The plane, which was en route to Charlotte, NC, was able to land safely.