It began in April of nineteen ninety-four after a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, both Hutus,was shot down.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

The first plane ever to fly faster than the speed of sound was the X-1 in nineteen forty-seven.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

In nineteen-ninety seven, John Denver was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

In April,1994 unknown assassins shot down the plane carrying then-President Juvenal Habyarimana.

VOA: standard.2009.04.10

Abdel Basset al-Megrahi received a warm welcome from flag waving Libyan supporters as he stepped off the plane Thursday in Tripoli, after his release from custody in Scotland on compassionate grounds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

As state television cameras chronicled his exploits for the Tuesday evening news, he co-piloted an amphibious firefighting plane, taking on water from a river and dumping it on burning fires in the Ryazan Region.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10