New study findings released today show airlines worldwide lost more than $1.4 billion to online fraudsters during the last year (2008), about 1.3% of worldwide airlines’ online revenue.

The facts comes from a new independent Airline Online Fraud Survey commissioned by CyberSource Corporation in collaboration with Airline Information LLC and completed January, 2009.

Singapore - A Singapore court on Friday fined a Danish aircraft engineer a total of 1,200 Singapore dollars (780 US dollars) for being drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner on board a Singapore Airlines flight, news report said.

Kim Borch Petersen, 39, pleaded guilty to being drunk on board the flight from London to Singapore on Thursday and also admitted to shouting, uttering vulgarities and pushing a steward, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.

Washington  - One man was rescued and 16 people were missing after a helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean Thursday while taking workers to an oil platform off Canada's east coast, Canadian news reports said.

Searchers recovered the body of the 18th person who was on board the helicopter, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news service reported.

Washington  - Seventeen people were missing after a helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean Thursday while taking workers to an oil platform off Canada's coast, authorities said.

The helicopter departed from Saint John's, the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador on its way to the Hibernia oil platform when in crashed in the cold waters, said Jeri Grychowski, spokeswoman for the Joint Rescue and Coordination Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Frankfurt- German airline Lufthansa AG on Wednesday forecast another drop in earnings this year after reporting a 64-per-cent drop in 2008 profit due to the economic downturn.

The carrier said net profit fell to 599 million euros (757 million dollars) last year, adding that it expects its 2009 operating profit to come in "significantly positive," but lower.

Operating profit fell 2.2 per cent to 1.35 billion euros last year from 1.38 billion euros in 2007, Lufthansa said.

Amsterdam  - Several Dutch KLM Airlines aircraft have altimeter problems, Dutch BNR News Radio reported on Wednesday.

Referring to "classified files" given to BNR, the radio station said KLM has registered altimeter problems on 17 occasions in the past six months.

On February 25, a Boeing 737-800 from Turkish Airlines crashed near Amsterdam. Nine people were killed and 121 injured. Preliminary results from the ongoing investigation said a faulty altimeter was the cause of the crash.