21.   The first flight departed last Friday but had to return when Greece refused authority for the plane to enter its air space, officials said.

22.   The flight had departed from Peru about midnight, said a spokesman for Houston-based Continental.

23.   The German national carrier said the first flight would depart Frankfurt airport Thursday night, returning early the next morning.

24.   The Minerva airlines flight had departed from Cagliari, Sardinia.

25.   The returning flights will depart Nagoya on Wednesdays and Sundays.

26.   The Sudan issue will be discussed primarily in Kenya, from which Sudan-bound relief flights depart.

27.   Anxious teary-eyed friends and family members waited impatiently at John F. Kennedy Airport, from where the ill-fated flight departed.

28.   Only seven flights departed the domestic airport, and two flights landed, the statement added.

29.   Return flights will depart Tuesdays and Saturdays.

30.   The flight eventually departed for Hong Kong later Friday, but the Virgin spokeswoman said it would be using an alternative route.