51.   Weeping family members gripped each other for support after they heard the plane had disappeared.

52.   While officials were releasing the details gleaned from new radar readings, the Kennedy family released its first statement since the plane disappeared.

53.   With official regret and a note of haunting finality it informed his wife, Mary Jo, that the plane had disappeared.

54.   The plane disappeared late Friday.

55.   The plane disappeared off radar screens shortly afterwards, after a Mayday call was received.

56.   The plane disappeared late Friday shortly after take-off in northern Argentina.

57.   The rescue operation was launched on Saturday by the Angolan firm ENANA after the plane disappeared from radar screens hours after taking off from Luanda.

58.   They added that the crew had made a distress call before the plane disappeared from the radar screens of Tunisian air traffic controlers.

59.   They added that there had been no prior word of any trouble and the plane just disappeared from radar screens.

60.   The plane disappeared from radar screens overnight last Wednesday while flying from Sakhalin island to the town of Novosibirsk.