21.   Utku, the airline official, was quoted by Anatolia news agency as saying the Bulgarians refueled the plane after the hijackers threatened to blow it up.

22.   Utku was quoted by Anatolia news agency as saying Bulgaria refueled the plane after the hijackers threatened to blow it up.

23.   Glascos Xenos, a police spokesman, said the hijackers had threatened to blow up the aircraft if it was not refueled.

24.   A Chinese hijacker Tuesday threatened to commit suicide if he was sent back to China after his release from prison here.

25.   Authorities in Cyprus said the hijackers had threatened to blow up the plane there unless it was refueled and allowed to take off for London.

26.   The Asahi Shimbun said the hijacker threatened to begin killing passengers shortly after midnight.

27.   The Cypriot authorities said the hijackers had threatened to blow up the plane unless the plane was refueled and allowed to take off.

28.   The hijacker reportedly threatened a stewardesss with an ice pick in the business class cabin.

29.   The hijackers had threatened to blow the ferry up unless Russia halted an attack on Chechen fighters in a village in Dagestan and allowed them to return to Chechnya.

30.   The hijackers had threatened to blow the vessel up but officials said late Friday that no explosives were found on the ferry.