1.   He was hustled into the van and driven to a waiting helicopter at a nearby private airstrip.

2.   The hostages are mostly workers for the Red Cross or Red Crescent who were taken prisoner at a nearby airstrip last month.

3.   A small airplane was blown over at a nearby airstrip.

4.   He said the insurgents had withdrawn from the town and a nearby airstrip.

5.   The opposition military alliance has no nearby airstrips and its aircraft have limited capability.

6.   Last November, NATO warplanes bombed the nearby Udbina airstrip in Serb-held Croatia after a Serb jet attacked the Bihac enclave.

7.   Locals say the city was now under full control of governor Gul Agha, backed by a heavy presence of US troops based at a nearby airstrip.

8.   Planes were being sent to a nearby airstrip to pick up the wounded, sources in Lubumbashi said.