21.   Indian authorities have been harshly criticized by some commentators for allowing the plane to leave Amritsar in northern India for Lahore, Pakistan.

22.   Most fighter planes never left the ground.

23.   Most of the delays occur after planes leave the gate.

24.   Mount Igman was somewhere off and above to the right, its snowbound summit shrouded in the murk the plane had just left.

25.   No more passenger planes would leave a U.S. airport that day.

26.   No plane will leave the gate unless, generally speaking, there is a passenger in the cabin for each bag in the cargo hold.

27.   Planes leave the airport at whim, sometimes hours late, although service is getting better.

28.   Several said they could not believe that such a huge plane would leave such an apparently small crater in the ground.

29.   Stay at the departure gate until the plane leaves the ground.

30.   The following day our plane left early again but we were wiser this time, arriving well in advance to ensure we would get on the flight to Algiers.