In a news release, YVR says the incident involved a small private aircraft. The airport says police responded and one person was taken into custody.

Canada's Vancouver airport grounded flights on Tuesday following report of small plane Cessna 172 ‘hijacked’, officials said. The travel at the airport was stopped temporarily.

A small plane has crashed at London Southend Airport on England's south east coast, police said on Sunday. "We remain on the scene of a serious incident at Southend Airport," the local Essex Police said, adding that they were alerted just before 4 p.m. to reports of a collision involving a 39-foot plane.

Police say all four people aboard a small plane that crashed shortly after taking off from London Southend Airport on Sunday are dead.

Dubbed Jovari Jetspeed, the expeditious system allegedly has the potential to slash “millions of hours and billions of expenses from air travel.”

Travel at one of Canada's busiest airports was briefly halted Tuesday after federal police received a report that a small plane had been "hijacked," officials said.

A small plane owned by Scripps Research Institute CEO Peter Schultz disappeared off the San Diego coast after the pilot became unresponsive during approach to Montgomery-Gibbs Airport.

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

Patna Airport's comparatively short runway often presents significant challenges for pilots, particularly when it comes to safely controlling the aircraft's speed during landing.

Just-released 911 calls captured the desperate moments after a small plane crashed in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood Sunday evening, as neighbors rushed into action. They came armed with sledgehammers, axes and hoses to save a family of four trapped inside the burning aircraft.