11.   He said three U.S.-donated helicopters and a passenger airplane of Weasua Airlines, which flies in West Africa, had been destroyed.

12.   Japanese officials and the Boeing aircraft company Tuesday denied a report that plans to study development of a next-generation passenger airplane had been postponed.

13.   Norway plans to reopen an investigation into the mysterious crash of a passenger airplane following new speculation that it had collided with a British military plane.

14.   The two discussed details of an earlier agreement to jointly develop medium-size passenger airplanes and build nuclear power plants, the presidential office said.

15.   Ukraine has also decided to shelter seven Yugoslav passenger airplanes, including five Boeings, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

16.   On Tuesday Aires Airline pilots successfully flew the passenger airplane that had been hijacked last Wednesday back to Bogota.