11.   One plane tried to make a forced landing on the small airstrip on uninhabited Mona Island, which is a nature preserve, but crashed into the sea.

12.   Rabat has a small airstrip.

13.   Roads are often inaccessible and there is only a small airstrip at Tingi Tingi making large scale aid deliveries impossible.

14.   There are several small airstrips where the planes could land in Somalia, or supplies could be transported by donkey cart and river rafts, he said.

15.   Tureia has a small airstrip, but it was not immediately clear why the ship was heading there.

16.   He also said that to avoid detection illegal arms traders were unloading arms shipments onto light planes which can land at small airstrips.

17.   The small Apia airstrip is on the east and the crash site suggests the plane was lost as the route would not normally take it over the area.

18.   Nevertheless, Young pledged continued government support for small airstrips -- mainly in the Arctic north -- which serve communities with no other viable form of transportation.