A commuter airplane for the synagogue might make sense.

British Aerospace said it had won a $32.6 million contract to build 10 commuter airplanes for Washington-based Presidential Airways.

The seats are narrow and jammed together on these commuter airplanes, and you notice everything that is happening inside the cabin.

Some of the newer commuter airplanes are choosing propellers with six blades, rather than the standard four, to hold down noise.

It had applied only to new commuter airplanes of this type.

At present, data recorders are not required on any smaller commuter airplanes or helicopters.

"We're so used to having small commuter airplanes that people just feel safer on those big planes."

A twin-engine commuter airplane skidded about 4,000 feet in a crash landing Wednesday night, starting a fire in the plane's cabin.

Years of flying commuter airplanes through the Rockies had mapped it in his mind.

A twin-engine commuter airplane carrying 23 people crashed into a mountain in driving rain shortly after takeoff near here this morning, killing all aboard, officials said.