1.   The Bush camp said seven charter airplanes will be used to transport the caravan of Republican heavyweights.

2.   A charter airplane carrying German tourists home from the Caribbean crashed into the ocean off the north coast of the Dominican Republic, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday.

3.   A small charter airplane crashed Monday just short of a runway in western Norway, killing all nine Danes aboard.

4.   A small charter airplane crashed short of a runway in western Norway Monday, killing all nine of the Danish citizens on board, police said.

5.   They traveled in unmarked charter airplanes and checked into hotels on business trips using assumed names.

6.   With much of the war-torn country inaccessible by ground transport, relief efforts also are hampered by the reluctance of companies to charter airplanes.

7.   A charter airplane meanwhile was ready at the Port-au-Prince airport to take military strongman Lieutenant General Raoul Cedras into exile.