11.   Like the plane that crashed on Wednesday, these aircraft crashed while approaching airports for landing.

12.   Like the plane that crashed on Wednesday, those aircraft crashed while approaching airports for landing.

13.   The military airplane crashed into the side of a mountain yesterday as it approached an airport just outside Dubrovnik, Croatia.

14.   Planes usually approach the airport over the sea.

15.   A Chinese passenger airplane crashed in bad weather as it approached Kimhae airport near the southern port city of Busan on Monday, a news report said.

16.   A plane carrying Yasushi Akashi, the senior U.N. official in former Yugoslavia, was hit Sunday as it approached the airport.

17.   A Russian jet slammed into a cloud-shrouded mountain Thursday, possibly because it was flying too low as it approached the airport.

18.   A small chartered plane carrying the U.N. envoy to Angola crashed into a swamp as it approached the airport in Abidjan, Ivorian officials said Saturday.

19.   An Indonesian air force transport plane was destroyed after being hit by rebel ground fire Thursday while it was approaching an airport in separatist-wracked Aceh province.

20.   As the pilot approached the airport at Puerto Escondido on the Pacific, he radioed ahead for an ambulance.