Arafat's widow, Suha, and his 9-year-old daughter, Zahwa, were among the crowd of dignitaries looking on as the coffin was placed on an Egyptian military cargo plane at the air base.
Dramatic video playing over and over on TV and the internet of a cargo 747 aircraft falling out of the sky shortly after take- off at Bagram Air Base has left some nervous fliers even more nervous that this could happen on a passenger airline.