21.   The other two hijackers took over the cockpit after forcing the pilot and co-pilot out.

22.   There was no explanation as to why the hijackers all took to the cockpit, which might have made it easier for authorities to target them.

23.   The unidentified hijacker took over the plane as it flew above Bordeaux on its way to Orly airport just outside Paris.

24.   Yeltsin ruled out the idea that the hijackers could take refuge in the breakaway Caucasus republic of Chechnya.

25.   The Boeing aircraft was on a flight from Khartoum to Port Sudan when the hijackers took control.

26.   The hijackers took over the plane, which was flying between Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and the Egyptian capital Cairo, after a stopover at Luxor, southern Egypt.

27.   The hijackers had taken over the plane during an internal flight in the Soviet Union and forced it to land at Karachi.