1.   Almost one dozen small planes were escorted by military jets out of the no-fly zone around events.

2.   A threat to an airliner bound for Sea-Tac earlier this year prompted the National Guard to scramble fighter jets to escort the plane into Sea-Tac.

3.   Often they have escorted targeted planes to landings at nearby airports.

4.   The plane was escorted to an airport in Boston, where the pilot was questioned and released.

5.   Beyond strikes on ground targets, U.S. military planes have been patrolling the skies to look out for enemy threats and escorting planes dropping humanitarian aid.

6.   Gunfire downed a police helicopter Sunday as it escorted a plane spraying herbicide on coca plantations in southern Colombia, a radio station said.

7.   The helicopters would escort unarmed planes that fumigate drug crops and ferry troops from two new U.S.-trained army battalions into guerrilla-infested jungles.

8.   The U.S. Air Force sent fighter jets to escort the plane to Seattle, the officer said.

9.   To date, most U.S. anti-narcotics aid to Colombia has funded crop dusting aircraft and armed helicopters that escort the planes on fumigation missions.

10.   They told The Associated Press that using fighter jets to escort surveillance planes was unlikely, but they could not rule it out.