Right-wing French terrorists reportedly tried to return the favor by attempting to sabotage Mattei's plane.
Yet scarcely was Mr Powell's plane out of Saudi skies before the caveats blew in.
The two lawyers flew back to Albany in Thuillez's plane after dropping off the couple in Boston.
Several papers point out Mr Cameron was given the rare privilege of a flight on the president's plane.
He told one that he would like to leave on Mrs Clinton's plane.
Mr Sharif refused to let General Musharraf's plane land in Karachi, as the general was returning from a trip abroad.
In January 1972, 22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulovic's plane exploded due to a suspected terrorist bomb in the cargo section.
In 1988, Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Raphel were killed when Zia's plane exploded after takeoff.
Enlisting archaeologist Tom King, a shoe was recovered in a location with circumstantial evidence of Earhart's plane, but nothing substantial has turned up.
Amelia Earhart's plane went down in the Pacific in 1937, unleashing decades of curiosity about the fate of Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan.
Fighter pilots were sent up to intercept Stewart's plane after controllers lost contact with it, and they reported its cockpit and cabin windows were frosted over.
In another incident, an Afghan driver raced in a stolen vehicle towards 200 marines at a southern base, as the American defence secretary's plane was landing there.
Before Musharraf's plane touched down, soldiers had taken control of the airport and the radio and television stations, and put a number of cabinet ministers under house arrest.
Meanwhile, Downing Street has revealed the carbon dioxide emissions from the prime minister's plane will be "offset" by making an investment in "energy-saving technology" in the developing world.
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Mr Lord said Concorde was the "people's plane", funded by taxpayers, and the public deserved to see the figures on how much it would cost to retain it.
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The Associated Press searched six years of office and travel-related expenses for Menendez's U.S. Senate office and found no reports reflecting payments to Melgen or trips aboard Melgen's plane.
The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum features a full size replica of Yeager's plane (the real one hangs in the Smithsonian) and actual aircraft that made the region famous.
Meg Turner, from Muswell Hill, said her husband's plane for Singapore had been on the runway for five hours on Saturday night, before the flight was cancelled and he returned home.
Terence Kindlon, an Albany attorney who is a volunteer pilot for Angel Flight, said he and another lawyer, Dale Thuillez, had flown the couple to Boston on Friday morning in Thuillez's plane.
In March, an Afghan civilian drove a stolen pickup truck onto a ramp alongside the runway where Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's plane was landing at a U.S. military base in southern Helmand province.
The head of the historic airplane group gained some credibility after searches around Nikumaroro turned up an aluminum panel and a piece of curved glass that might have come from Ms. Earhart's plane.
Shabbar Rizvi, a lawyer who practises in the Supreme Court, says that, because Mr Sharif tried to divert the general's plane only after the army had moved in, the case is likely to have little bearing on the government's defence of the coup.
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Mr Rau has now admitted taking at least 44 flights in the bank's plane, but they were all, he says, to do with bank or government business, though he sometimes went on to visit family or friends or to attend functions as deputy national chairman of the Social Democrats.
"President Jonathan assures air travelers in the country that every possible effort will be made to ensure that the right lessons are learned from the tragic loss of valuable lives in today's plane crash and that further measures will be put in place to boost aviation safety, " the statement from Jonathan's office said.
Accounts of the deadly attacks last fall in Mumbai, India, the May 2008 earthquake in China and last week's plane crash show what used to be just a virtual gathering place to communicate pet peeves or plans for the weekend has evolved into a go-to spot for eyewitness news -- sometimes even before mainstream media has had time to crack the story.
When Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the bombing, was captured in Pakistan, a U.S. military plane was sent there to bring him to the U.S. She demanded the plane land within the Southern District so that she could prosecute him in Manhattan.
Photographs show the violent force deformed the plane's fuselage, forced the tail wheel to deploy and likely resulted in the plane's trim tab -- a piece of the tail -- to fly off, the safety board said.
In the movie, the Olsen twins arrive in the Royal Towers on their father's private plane.
Divers enter crash crater for the first time, report, "There's no plane left, " just pieces.
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