1.   Airport officials said there had been no hint of trouble until radio contact was suddenly lost three minutes from touchdown.

2.   The family - without plane tickets and passports - had to talk their way past airport officials on their homeward journey.

3.   He blew his top after airport officials refused to let him on a plane.

4.   Although initial reports described a midair explosion, airport officials said they believed the plane had first crashed and then exploded.

5.   Although airport officials have been talking to airlines for several years, none has signed up so far, not even little charter companies.

6.   An airport official in Tel Aviv said all tickets for the flight had been bought in Israel.

7.   An airport official said it bought the two large jets from the government of Kazakhstan, once a part of the former Soviet Union.

8.   An airport official who helped Denver get the plane out of its hangar said everything was routine and Denver seemed normal, Petterson said.

9.   And in an era when airport officials throughout the country are crying for extra gates, Widmar thinks KCI has enough gates to get through the next eight years.

10.   As recently as April, electrical problems continued to plague the project, and a high-level delegation of airport officials was stranded between stations on a test run.