21.  Five French planes carrying humanitarian aid for ethnic Albanian refugees left France for Macedonia and Albania Monday.

22.  Four French planes with humanitarian aid were to land later Thursday.

23.  Four officials from the French plane manufacturer were also scheduled to arrive in Taipei to join the investigation, officials said.

24.  French planes were also involved in the missions, Smith said.

25.  French military planes are transporting tons of materiel from a main base in Gabon to this tiny African island nation, military sources here said Wednesday.

26.  French officials are now discussing putting plainclothes and uniformed police on French planes, a source said.

27.  French military planes have been carrying French, American, Japanese and other evacuees to Paris since Tuesday.

28.  He noted that French planes have only flown reconnaissance missions over northern Iraq, though they take part in the no-fly protection missions in the south.

29.  He predicted the bans could cripple the movement of both French planes and ships in New South Wales.

30.  He was to leave for Iraq on Friday morning aboard a French plane.