1.   A Marine Corps refueling plane with at least seven Marines aboard crashed into a mountainside on Wednesday on a landing approach to Shamsi, in southwest Pakistan.

2.   It replaces Kai Tak, the in-town field known for its harrowing landing approach between high-rise apartment buildings.

3.   The airliner was on its landing approach.

4.   The Air Force plane that crashed Wednesday was on a landing approach to Dubrovnik, Croatia.

5.   The design, which mimics the landing approach lights at airports, was proposed by a local pilot after a friend accidentally killed a pedestrian with his car.

6.   This feature would let air traffic controllers specify a particular distance for planes to follow one another in a landing approach.

7.   Rebels in three boats fired machine guns at the plane during its landing approach near the Palali air base in Jaffna Peninsula, the military said in a statement.

8.   Rebels in two boats fired small arms at the plane during its landing approach near the Palali air base in Jaffna Peninsula, the military said in a statement.

9.   A Swiss regional airliner from Berlin crashed on its landing approach to Zurich late Saturday.

10.   A spokeswoman for Essex police said Friday that the men were rowdy and generally disorderly, and the pilot aborted his first landing approach.