1.   The passenger jet made an emergency landing at an abandoned airfield.

2.   Charles Perry, who turned an abandoned airfield on the fringes of the Everglades into Florida International University, died on Monday at his home in Rockwall, Texas.

3.   Some abandoned airfields find less exalted uses.

4.   Their missions include raids and securing positions, which might include abandoned Soviet airfields in northern Afghanistan.

5.   Three miles across the bay is a neater set of seven camps sprawled across an abandoned concrete airfield housing the Haitian refugees.

6.   Heavily armed Italian marines provided cover as the helicopters touched down briefly at an abandoned airfield.

7.   Land speed racing is a high-octane sport in which drivers rifle across dry lake beds, deserts and abandoned airfields in pursuit of thrills and records.