1.   In the darkness, the big jet skidded into the ground, shattering into pieces on the other side of the ridge.

2.   No one, as far as I know, has ever before cut away the wing of a submerged big jet.

3.   Although these aircraft fly faster and higher in the busy jet lanes than did their turbo-prop predecessors, they are still slower than big jets.

4.   Big jets flying above the weather do not encounter the larger droplets.

5.   Boeing dominates the market for big jets because Airbus, based in Toulouse, France, has no plane that size.

6.   Big jets displace waves of air that can destabilize the tanker.

7.   Airline support for the new big jet is critical.

8.   Cockpit simulators with computers to run the gauges and dials are routine in the training programs for big jets but not smaller planes.

9.   Colombian authorities denied Wednesday that the Caribbean island of San Andres serves as a haven for drug traffickers and that big jets are transporting cocaine to Mexico.

10.   Dan Schwinn, after success at Shiva, has a new startup and a device that will enable small planes to near safety standards of big jets.