The United Arab Emirates aviation authority is investigating a claim by al-Qaeda that it was behind the September crash of a UPS plane in Dubai, but has found no link so far, an official said on Saturday.
"So far we have no evidence that links the UPS plane crash with a terror attack. There is no evidence of explosives on board," Saif al-Suwaidi, director general of the UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority, told Reuters by telephone. (Reuters)