11.   Aviation experts said such a descent would be very unlikely unless the pilots were still flying the plane.

12.   Air Force officials had said immediately after the incident that the pilot flew close to the jetliner to identify it and perhaps to determine whether it was in distress.

13.   Air Force pilots fly hundreds of sorties a year over Latin America and the Caribbean supporting counterdrug operations.

14.   Airplanes crash in this country on the average of one per week because pilots have flown into weather they are not trained to handle.

15.   Allied pilots must fly low when late winter clouds obscure targets, many of them in mountainous terrain.

16.   British pilots have been flying Tornado fighter aircraft, and eight German Tornado jets arrived in Italy to fly support missions for the other NATO pilots.

17.   But some board members still object to provisions that would allow Eagle pilots to fly new smaller regional jets.

18.   But the grinding continues, and Delta pilots will now fly for less.

19.   China Airlines pilots were flying the plane back to Taiwan for repairs.

20.   Company President James A. Watkins said in a telephone interview Monday night that his pilots had flown with Stewart about three or four times in the past.