1.   THREE people were treated in hospital today after passengers and crew had to swiftly leave an aircraft by emergency chutes when smoke appeared in the cockpit.

2.   Gagne said his understanding was that Mexico would pick up the cost of travel after the people leave the aircraft.

3.   Prueher said the crew would normally have left the aircraft after shutting down its electrical power.

4.   The passengers left the aircraft by flight stairs and were shuttled back to Concourse C to meet another plane.

5.   This costs a million extra hours of work a year, leaves aircraft unfit to fly and demoralizes mechanics, the report said.

6.   All those aboard safely left the aircraft, but were detained by police until their identities could be checked.

7.   As it left the aircraft, Foreign Secretary Najmuddin Sheikh, who had hugged the wounded employees as they disembarked, placed a bouquet of roses on the coffin.

8.   But they too left the aircraft later, said the officials.

9.   He also left his aircraft, which he hopes to have recovered.

10.   It took authorities hours of negotiations to convince the passengers to leave the aircraft.