31.   French authorities have decorated the captain and crew of an Air France Airbus hijacked by an Algerian guerrilla commando over Christmas, the transport ministry said Wednesday.

32.   He replaces Dalmas Otieno at the transport ministry, who was given no new post.

33.   Heavy snowfall in Romania in the last few days has blocked roads in the Carpathian Mountains and caused power outages in other regions, the transport ministry said.

34.   In July, the Japanese transport ministry concluded that the accident was caused by both pilot error and design faults in the aircraft.

35.   In its final report on the accident, the Japanese transport ministry has blamed both human error and design faults in the aircraft for the crash.

36.   In Jerusalem, an official at the Israeli transport ministry said that the first Qatar Air flight would arrive in Tel Aviv next month.

37.   In Jerusalem, the Israeli transport ministry said the choppers were to be used solely by the self-rule authority and not for commercial flights.

38.   Indonesian authorities will allow four more foreign airlines to fly into the country, a news report said Tuesday, citing cources at the transport ministry.

39.   Instead, it referred the proposal to the communications and transport ministry and ordered further studies to be carried out.

40.   Iran, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan are to begin talks on plans to construct a highway linking the three nations, the transport ministry said Monday.