11.   Later at Perth airport after a five-hour flight from Sydney, Yuan appeared distressed as she left the aircraft.

12.   Moments before that, two of the hijackers had left the aircraft for a meeting with negotiators on the tarmac, Edwards said.

13.   Moments before that, two people seen leaving the aircraft were hijackers bound for a meeting with negotiators on the tarmac outside the plane, said Edwardsd.

14.   Neither were seen leaving the aircraft.

15.   The controllers were using a go-slow strategy, leaving aircraft in take-off position with running engines for up to one hour.

16.   The heavily armed hijackers let women and children leave the aircraft first, said Joe Edwards, Essex County police assistant chief constable.

17.   The people on board then left the aircraft using the chutes.

18.   The passenger were able to leave the aircraft over stairs placed by the emergency crew at the side of the plane, officials said.

19.   They turned off the power and left the aircraft before being rescued by another plane.

20.   When the minister left the aircraft to try to calm the crowd, pilgrims set upon him and he was fatally injured, the officials said.