1.   Aging airliners fly one-way trips there during hard economic times so that they can be mothballed or scrapped.

2.   Cypriot aviation officials said the airliner flew straight through Syrian airspace towards Baghdad.

3.   The airliner initially flew into Syrian airspace and circled the capital Damascus.

4.   The decision to allow Pakistani airliners to fly over India will again enable them to fly directly rather than circuitously to Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

5.   To fly into a jet stream, the windy region where commercial airliners fly, an electric current is fed into the conductive tether.

6.   A Russian airliner flying from Israel to Siberia crashes into the Black Sea, Russian emergency officials say.

7.   Egyptian airliners flew into Tripoli and the Mediterranean coastal city of Benghazi on Thursday.

8.   Egyptian airliners flew into Tripoli and the Mediterranean coastal city of Benghazi on Thursday, and Libyan television reported both planes took off for Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.

9.   Israeli air traffic controllers, involved in a labor dispute with their employer, refused to permit Jordanian airliners to fly across Israel Saturday, an Israeli official said.

10.   Israeli air traffic controllers refused to permit Jordanian airliners to fly across Israel Saturday, an Israeli official said.