21.   Then, as if to deliver the punch line to some dark, cosmic joke, an airplane crashed in the heart of the Rockaways on a sunny morning.

22.   A flight instructor and student were killed when a single-engine airplane crashed and caught fire shortly after takeoff from Saratoga County airport Thursday afternoon.

23.   A light airplane crashed into an industrial neighborhood in eastern Australia on Tuesday, killing all four people on board, authorities said.

24.   A light airplane crashed during an aerobatics display near the Belgian coastal resort of Ostend on Saturday, killing at least eight people, Belgian radio reported.

25.   A light airplane crashed during an aerobatics display near the Belgian coastal resort of Ostend Saturday killing at least five people, Belgian radio reported.

26.   A new twin-engine commuter airplane crashed on a test flight Thursday, killing all six people aboard, including an American instructor.

27.   A German couple was killed when their single-engine airplane crashed into a mountainous island in northern Norway, authorities said Thursday.

28.   A small airplane crashed Saturday at a military base in Baja California state, killing all six Americans on board, police said.

29.   A senior Ugandan military officer was killed when an airplane reportedly headed for rebel-held Congo crashed in western Uganda, a radio report said Sunday.

30.   A single-engine airplane crashed into the yard of a suburban Johannesburg house Wednesday, killing all four people aboard, police said.