51.   After the strike date was set, British Airways said it had a revised offer the pilots had not seen and was ready to talk without pre-conditions.

52.   Gen. Wesley Clark told reporters during a visit to Aviano air base that pilots are seeing what amounts to a scorched earth policy in action.

53.   Grant Davis, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said industry standards required marking the wires because they are difficult for pilots to see.

54.   He said British pilots saw American fliers taking measures to evade Serb ground fire.

55.   In the first, pilots saw what they believed were Serb military or paramilitary units burning houses north of Djakovica.

56.   The air force commander, Gen. Fabio Velasco, said government and civilian pilots saw presumed rebels dressed in green surrounding the plane.

57.   The air force commander, Gen. Fabio Velasco, said a rescue helicopter pilot saw people in uniform surrounding the plane.

58.   The landing site was illuminated only by feeble lamps, which the helicopter pilots could not see in the dark, Taubmann said.

59.   The official crash report said that during his descent the pilot saw a large flock of birds near the runway and tried to abort the landing.

60.   The other pilots saw their down companion take to a life raft.