11.   Last weekend, TV news was dominated by reports that a single American plane had been downed.

12.   Loeb and others say that no matter what downed the plane, they have achieved one major goal of the investigation, finding a way to prevent a repetition.

13.   Officially, the Pentagon says the cause of what downed the plane is still under investigation.

14.   Officials continue to say only that the plane was downed by a catastrophic event that was either caused by a mechanical malfunction, a missile, or a bomb.

15.   On that day Cuban air force jets downed two planes off the Cuban coast, killing four members of an anti-Castro group.

16.   Rumsfeld confirmed that military officials had lost contact with an unmanned aircraft over Afghanistan, but he disputed Taliban claims that its fighters had downed the plane.

17.   Russia has asked the United States to supply them with specific intelligence data to support the theory that a stray Ukrainian missile downed the plane.

18.   Several outside experts said they agree with the FBI that chemical traces are not enough to determine conclusively that the plane was downed by a bomb or a missile.

19.   That fact, he said, will complicate the inquiry if investigators determine the plane was downed by a bomb.

20.   The American pilot was flying a routine NATO monitoring mission when his plane was downed by a Serbian missile near the northern town of Banja Luka.