1.   A wingman watched as the crippled plane crashed, exploding into a fireball on impact.

2.   Crippled Afghan commercial planes stood to one side, the wing of one jet broken by an unexploded bomb that remained lodged below the tarmac.

3.   Flying extremely low, Lindsey and Hadley struggled to control the crippled plane.

4.   Other witnesses who watched the crippled plane as it flew toward the southeast also anticipated the worst.

5.   She acted firmly and in command, even lying convincingly that it would be no trouble to land the crippled plane on one engine.

6.   At the Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan a crippled plane lies at the end of the runway peeking out from overgrown grass.

7.   Firemen and rescue teams quickly rushed to the crippled plane and evacuated all the passengers and crew safely.

8.   In Beijing, the Chinese government announced that foreign journalists would not be allowed to go to Hainan to report on the inspection of the crippled plane.

9.   It is a nation that may have come into a windfall of U.S. intelligence when the crippled Navy plane came out of the sky.

10.   Officials also said the crew raced to destroy classified information as Chinese troops surrounded the crippled plane on Hainan island.