Two Tornado warplanes were scrambled to meet the plane about half an hour before it landed.
Seriously, why?' " "I actually cried all the way home on the plane about that shot," she added with a smile.
The longest plane, about 225 feet, was on the Hobbacott Down plane of the Bude Canal in Cornwall.
Mr. El-Yateem's 2-year-old son obsessively draws pictures of a plane about to smash into the twin towers.
The first group of about 85 people, many of them women and children, left the plane about 3 15.
The following day, the Vietnamese navy said it spotted a floating object, thought to be the door of the plane, about 50 miles southwest of Tho Chu Island.
Ms. Merkel had just come from a meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, and she briefed journalists in the plane about how she saw the crisis.
EADS supporters say that the size of its plane, about 25 percent bigger than Boeing's, had impressed Air Force officials in 2008.
A plane about to leave here for San Francisco was evacuated today after a passenger found a box cutter in the seat pocket in front of her.
As it enters the atmosphere, a group of scientists and tourists hope to be in a plane about 300 miles away, watching the station's fiery disintegration.
I was on a plane about a year ago and I watched an episode of Blackadder that I'd never seen before.
