61.   The package shows an empty runway at Charles de Gaulle airport and includes comment in both French and English from stranded passengers.

62.   The scene at the airport was chaotic with some stranded passengers having spent the night on the airport lounge.

63.   The state was scrambling to accommodate the stranded passengers.

64.   Indian Airlines was trying to shift stranded passengers to private airlines and was deploying executives to command flights, officials said.

65.   Indian Airlines officials said they were meanwhile trying to shift stranded passengers to private airlines.

66.   An airport source told AFP the stranded passengers had been booked into hotels, but he was unsure how many were affected.

67.   Bhargava said the stranded passengers left Bombay on a Canada-bound Air India plane with stop-overs in London and New York.

68.   Conditions were unlikely to improve overnight, and taxi and hotel arrangements were made for stranded passengers, a spokesman said.

69.   Panlilio said however that, despite the strike, the backlog of passengers was minimal because the airline was able to refer most stranded passengers to other airlines.

70.   The Countess M was anchored off Larnaca since last Tuesday, as Cypriot and Palestinian authorities held intense negotiations to solve the plight of the stranded passengers.