First time they had ever been on a plane was actually to fly to the competition that they ended up doing so well on.
He had never been on a plane before 1995, when he left his native Orissa, India, at age 23 with a one-way ticket to Logan, Utah, to pursue a master's degree in economics on an academic scholarship to Utah State University.
This old meets new world in Makkah no doubt is a whole new world for many of the pilgrims, some of them from far-flung villages where many haven't even been on a plane before, let alone had a McDonald's Big Mac.
Police acted quickly to arrest Mr Strauss-Kahn just hours after the alleged encounter - but they would not have acted in such haste had he not been on a plane bound for France, says Linda Fairstein, the former head of the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan district attorney's office.
Najib Hashimi, 18, who has been in the UK since 2009 and lived with a foster family in Kent, was due to have been put on a plane on Monday night.
In most countries, Wosik would have been placed on a plane straight back to Warsaw.
As British Home Secretary Theresa May confirms that the packages in planes departing Dubai and the UK for the US indeed contained explosives powerful enough to destroy a cargo plane (and possibly a passenger plane, had they been on one), Iran continues to maintain that no explosives have been found.
According to Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) charter flight customers can refuse to take a seat on a plane that has been delayed more than 12 hours, claiming a full refund.
Anyone with a fever or exhibiting flu-like symptoms has been placed in quarantine, usually in a hospital, while anyone whose seat on a plane was close to a person with such symptoms has been sequestered in hotel rooms, the U.S. State Department has said.
Lindbergh's name was yet to be uttered by a single delegate, and because of an engineering conclave at a midwestern factory where he'd been advising on the design of a new fighter plane, he wasn't present or expected to be.
Adcox said his boss had been hospitalized last month after fainting on a plane flight, but doctors had not found the cause.
AbdulMutallab should not have been able to get high explosives on a plane, the watch list system should have prevented him from boarding the plane at all, and the U.S. intelligence community writ large should have been able to collect, analyze and disseminate critical intelligence.
But it was comforting to know, we got an announcement on our plane that there had been a security alert at Heathrow, but no one told us precisely what that would mean.
The A1 in Cambridgeshire has been reopened following a fatal plane crash near Peterborough on Friday.
As he said, were it not for brave citizens of the world on that plane, it might have been a catastrophic disaster.
Several off-duty or retired Yonkers police officers had been at a boat club on shore, and they commandeered a boat and set out to look for the plane.
All 155 people on the plane survived, and Sullenberger has been hailed as a hero.
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Russian media reported that all passengers had been flown to Moscow on another plane, with the exception of a couple who preferred to go by train.
"If the landing gear had collapsed directly on landing it would have been a much larger incident because the plane is clearly going much faster, " he said.
"When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted on as it should have been, so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systematic failure has occurred, " he said.
He has been charged with attempting to destroy the plane and placing a destructive device on the aircraft, which carried 300 passengers.
Mitchell had been travelling for a Christmas holiday when his plane crashed in Maine in the United States on December 22.
The Senegalese authorities said they had stopped about 100 women from boarding a charter plane to Libya, from where they would probably have been taken on to Europe for use as prostitutes.
Chinese government ships have been sailing in and out of what Japan says are its territorial waters around the islands, and in recent weeks Japanese fighters have been scrambled on a number of occasions after what Japan called an airspace violation by a Chinese government plane late last year.
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He has been in the UK since 2009, but was detained on Sunday and told he would be put on a plane back to his homeland the following night.
On 28 January, commercial flights were delayed by nearly three hours while a plane that had been left open overnight was searched by police and technicians.
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