21.  Hammerschmidt said the board was looking into the earlier flight and would interview the pilots on Thursday.

22.  He was carrying multiple passports with different names and had a pair of flight crew uniforms in a suitcase that ended up in Chicago on an earlier flight.

23.  It was not clear what would happen to passengers booked on the earlier flights, also to New York and Miami, which generally are full.

24.  Most passengers departed on earlier flights, and only a few stood at ticket counters.

25.  NTSB member John Hammerschmidt said the agency is investigating the newspaper report, and is interviewing pilots from the earlier flight.

26.  Rashid and his wife allegedly rode in the same plane on an earlier flight, and slipped a bomb beneath a passenger seat.

27.  The luggage arrived in Chicago aboard an earlier flight, authorities said.

28.  Thirty-nine of those aboard were French and Ecuadoreans who had arrived from Paris on an earlier Airbus flight.

29.  Tsu had turned off a recorder on an earlier flight after a dispute with his co-pilot.

30.  Three earlier flights Saturday were canceled.