1.   An AWACS surveillance plane on a training mission over the United States was diverted to the area, said a Pentagon spokesman, Rear Adm. Craig Quigley.

2.   As the years went by, however, lookouts often spotted fires before air surveillance planes.

3.   At that point, the Peruvian officer on board the surveillance plane tried to radio the Cessna on an emergency frequency, but received no response.

4.   Awacs surveillance planes also patrol the skies.

5.   A CIA-operated surveillance plane had identified the missionary plane as a suspected drug flight.

6.   A federal surveillance plane found the animal again, and Mayo flew out by helicopter to the Coast Guard cutter Diligence to investigate.

7.   A fighter jet can become unstable in flying slow enough to shadow a lumbering surveillance plane.

8.   A Peruvian Air Force officer was also on board the American surveillance plane to act as a liaison between the two crews.

9.   A pilotless Predator surveillance plane.

10.   A similar agreement has been signed with Ecuador, which allows U.S. drug surveillance planes to fly from a military base in the coastal city of Manta.