1.  An Eva Air passenger plane also due to land in Manila flew back to Taiwan, officials said.

2.  An airport official said diving teams initially had difficulty getting close to the plane due to the heat of the burning wreckage.

3.  Copilot Acacio Diaz Figueroa told the government news agency Notimex the crew lost control of the plane due to poor visibility.

4.  Velez said the pilot decided to land the plane due to a smell of smoke in the cabin.

5.  Georgian security forces Tuesday defused a bomb placed on an Aeroflot plane due to fly from Tbilisi to Moscow, the Georgian news agency Iprinda reported.

6.  The pilot lost control of the plane due to a technical fault on landing and it ended up in the sand.

7.  They have also grounded planes due to poor maintenance.

8.  They were released on Thursday and put aboard two planes due to arrive here in the evening.