31.   One site was posted in an homage to the Chinese pilot who was killed in a collision with a U.S. Navy surveillance plane.

32.   Overhead, a single engine surveillance plane makes leisurely passes in airspace closed to all other aviation.

33.   Pentagon officials said they had no clear idea about the condition of the Navy surveillance plane.

34.   Pentagon officials said they had minimized the risks by strictly limiting the surveillance planes to routes over international waters.

35.   Short answered that he could be, but that he could end up overseeing surveillance planes if a peace accord was reached.

36.   Shelby and other lawmakers have already raised questions about possible communications hitches between the English-speaking American crew of the surveillance plane and Peruvian Air Force personnel.

37.   So it was several weeks ago in the clash with the Chinese over the holding of the American surveillance plane and crew.

38.   Some of the missions have been defensive, officers say, including protecting surveillance planes and other assets in the sky.

39.   Stumpf said an Air Force surveillance radar plane over Saudi Arabia kept them abreast of the threats.

40.   The American surveillance plane did not draw close enough to do so, the official said, for fear of alerting the aircraft to its presence.