1.   Although traveling by propeller plane remains safer than driving, aviation experts say that taking such planes in foul weather, particularly at night, can be hazardous.

2.   Agnes Imregh likes to schmooze clients and friends while piloting her single-engine propeller plane around the San Francisco Bay.

3.   But they are not very popular with passengers, many of whom complain about the noise and the often-bumpy rides associated with propeller planes.

4.   Chechen officials, however, said the propeller plane was used for crop dusting and described the technician, an ethnic Armenian, as an innocent bystander.

5.   Generally, smaller propeller planes have a higher accident rate than the larger ones.

6.   He graduated from model planes to propeller planes.

7.   He recently recalled how she called him after flying solo in a propeller Navy training plane for the first time.

8.   In general, commuter airlines that operate mostly propeller planes have had an accident rate that is about two to three times that of major carriers.

9.   In their place, smaller, twin-engine propeller planes called Twin Otters will be used.

10.   Major airlines have replaced jets with propeller planes on many routes in recent years as a way to cut costs.