Further, since 1989, the company has been the owner of a one-eighth interest in a Cessna jet with Berman Industries, which is owned by Martin Berman.

News agencies reported that the businessmen were in a twin-engine Cessna jet.

The crash occurred when a small Cessna jet took a wrong turn and crossed the path of an SAS airliner, colliding just as the passenger aircraft lifted its nose for takeoff.

The investment banker Robert Greenhill likes to fly his Cessna jet to the Nantucket airport or his Cessna seaplane to his waterfront dock.

In court papers asking that Mr. Haas be held until his trial, the Justice Department said that he could flee the country in his Cessna jet and head for China, where he has business interests.

On October 8, 2001, Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686, a MD-87 SE-DMA collided with a small Cessna jet during take-off at Linate Airport, Milan, Italy.

The cause of the accident was a misunderstanding between air traffic controllers and the Cessna jet, and the SAS crew had no role in causing the accident.

John Ashcroft was flying in a Cessna jet over Detroit on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when he received word that the Twin Towers had been hit.

In 1980, advised by business managers, he bought a Cessna jet, which he christened "On Wings of Song," to make all the flying less exhausting.

From Miami, the Customs Services flies 15 planes, including two Cessna jets that are also equipped with infrared sensors.