1.   Five sources said ValuJet employees threw a used automotive transmission in the baggage hold as ballast.

2.   His cage was blown off a conveyor belt as it was being loaded into the baggage hold of a Delta Air Lines jet at Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday.

3.   If the plane was felled by a bomb, law enforcement officials said, the explosive device could have been hidden in the baggage hold.

4.   Next time, there could be a bomb in the baggage hold.

5.   Not every instrument can withstand the conditions in an airplane baggage hold.

6.   The cello would be relegated to the baggage hold.

7.   The stress could cause the bag to burst at the seams and spill its contents in the baggage hold.

8.   With studied nonchalance in his voice, the captain announced that the smoke sensor in the baggage hold had gone off.

9.   Yesterday the trade group representing the major U.S. airlines said its members were making plans to install fire suppression systems in the baggage holds of their passenger planes.

10.   Instead, they stayed to try to put out a fire in the baggage hold, a joint Belgian-Dutch commission investigating the disaster said.