1.   After the hijackers threatened to blow up the Russian plane, Saudi commandos stormed the aircraft.

2.   Air traffic controllers said the hijackers had threatened to blow up the plane in the air.

3.   After the hijackers threatened to blow up the Turkish Airlines plane, Saudi commandos stormed the aircraft.

4.   Airport manager Atanas Atanasov said the hijacker threatened to detonate a bomb if his demand to fly to Oslo were refused.

5.   Earlier, the hijacker had threatened to blow up the plane unless it was allowed to fly to Iraq, Saudi officials in Riyadh said.

6.   He told airline officials the hijacker had threatened a flight attendant with an ice pick.

7.   He was quoted by Anatolia news agency as saying the Bulgarians refueled the plane after the hijackers threatened to blow it up.

8.   Officials in Russia said earlier that the hijackers had threatened to blow up the plane.

9.   Reiss said that, according to preliminary information, the hijacker threatened the pilot with a knife.

10.   Several others were injured in the operation, which came after the hijackers threatened to blow up the plane, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.