In 1995, a French air force cargo plane landed at the Bosnian city of Mostar, becoming the first aircraft to do so since 1992.

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Arafat's widow, Suha, and his 9-year-old daughter, Zahwa, were among the crowd of dignitaries looking on as the coffin was placed on an Egyptian military cargo plane at the air base.

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The crash was confirmed by the plane's owners, National Air Cargo.

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Gassing up the C-17 cargo plane with a coal-based synthetic fuel could begin soon, according to an Air Force representative.

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If the cargo was ready, Dolney said, the Air Force was prepared to send up to one C-141 plane and one C-17 plane each hour.

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But the first officer, still believing that the object in the sky above him was the cargo plane, initiated a dive to avoid the perceived imminent collision -- sending the jetliner toward the Air Force plane.

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