1.   At a drop zone there she met Steve, a tall, outgoing mechanical engineer who built jet engines.

2.   The pathfinders were specially trained to find and mark the drop zones.

3.   Gathered around the drop zone were children from several local schools.

4.   Nearly everyone came down according to plan, but Sgt Paul Flood surprised everyone by missing the drop zone and coming down behind the crowd.

5.   And that sometimes the plane had to make three or four passes over the drop zone before, finally, his aide would push him out.

6.   And when the spectacle had ended, the jumpers formed up in columns and marched in from the drop zone to stand before the people in the bleachers.

7.   As the plane cuts across the drop zone, its nose pulls up.

8.   Hundreds of women and children rush through the dry grass to the shade trees alongside the drop zone, prattling in anticipation.

9.   It seemed to him the drop zone was nearer the hole than where he should have dropped, given the line his ball had traveled into the water.

10.   One of the jets turned back in midflight because of problems in its drop zone, Air Force officials said.