A Boeing 737-700 belonging to Colombian airline AIRES crashed at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport on the Colombian island of San Andres on Monday, breaking into pieces and killing one passenger.
JetBlue on Wednesday launched flights to two new Latin American cities from their hub at New York's JFK International Airport: Liberia, Costa Rica and La Romana, Dominican Republic.
While diversions do happen frequently, the decision to land a plane perhaps hundreds or thousands of miles from its destination is not taken lightly. A look at why planes divert and how pilots, dispatchers and managers choose w...