No passengers were aboard the plane, an American Eagle commuter, which was caught by the blast as it crossed behind a Northwest Airlines 747 jumbo jet.

Cellular and satel- Forty-seven minutes later the jet crossed into Canada on a northlite telephone communications kept him in voice contact with the rest of northeast course.

Soaring over this global farm is a boxwood airplane, a whimsical salute to La Guardia and Kennedy Airports' deafening jets constantly crossing overhead.

About 400 feet past the runway, the jet crossed the flight path of the eagle, with fish in talons.

Two days later, as Jake returned to the United States of America, another jet crossed the Atlantic in the opposite direction, carrying Acting Director of Central Intelligence Donald Bane to Berlin.

The evening sky was clear as the jet, cruising at 525 knots, crossed into Alaska from Canada, northeast of Fort Yukon.

No passengers or crew on board were killed but eight people on the ground were killed when the jet crossed a road.

The jet crossed a highway and struck an automobile, utility poles, and 2 fences, killing the pilot and co-pilot, and injuring both passengers in the aircraft and 2 people in the automobile.

There would be five more waypoints to cross before the jumbo jet reached Matsushima and crossed the Japanese main island of Hokkaido.

In addition, although there have been indignant denials, diplomats say Iraqi jets sometimes cross Kuwaiti airspace on their forays into the gulf.