11.   Hundreds of stranded passengers crowded the airports and were put up by the airlines at hotels for the night.

12.   In Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, relatives of passengers aboard the flight crowded the airport, sobbing and grasping each other after hearing of the crash.

13.   Many Chinese children and elderly people locked and left their homes to stay with relatives outside Medan, crowding the airport to leave on fully booked flights.

14.   Many Chinese children and elderly people quit their homes to stay with relatives outside Medan, crowding the airport to leave on fully booked flights.

15.   Stranded passengers crowded the airports.

16.   Tourists crowded airports to flee the storm and cruise ships turned away from the winds and rain.

17.   Tourists crowded airports to flee the storm and airlines began canceling flights.

18.   Earlier Thursday hundreds crowded the airport in freezing temperatures, some clad only in light white hajj robes, waiting for planes to take them to Saudi Arabia.

19.   The German group, immediately whisked away to a government hotel by police officers, did not speak to journalists crowding the airport.