"With the Qatar game, it was a round trip of about 16 hours in a plane and it wouldn't have been good for my problem, " he said.

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Visitors either take a ferry there, or fly 30 minutes on an Aloha Island Air commuter plane that holds 37 passengers and makes 10 round-trips daily from Honolulu.

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Aaron Jesse, 47, said he had left work early for a round with friends at Westlake Golf Course and saw the low-flying plane hit a tree, spin around 180 degrees and land surprisingly gently.

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Branko Crvenkovski, the Social Democratic prime minister of Macedonia , took a clear lead over his conservative rival in the first round of voting to find a successor for President Boris Trajkovksi, who was killed in a plane crash two months ago.

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