21.   Keith Anderson of the Canadian Air Traffic Association said Swissair pilot Urs Zimmermann talked several times with a control center in Moncton, New Brunswick, before the crash.

22.   Maldonado said a pilot believed to be from Bolivia showed up at the airport with a military authorization to test the plane.

23.   Mullen said pilots and ground crews aboard the carriers were training for a possible strike.

24.   Mullen said pilots and ground crews aboard the carriers were training and preparing for a possible strike.

25.   Ricardo Moreno of Chicago said the pilots and crew also left and went to a hotel.

26.   Private NTV television said the pilot lost control and crashed while landing at Cigli military air base, just outside the city.

27.   Ricardo Sandoval, a police officer in Ensenada, said the pilots and passengers lived in Tijuana and Mexicali, the capital of Baja California state.

28.   The Angolan Association of Pilots welcomed the decision, saying Russian pilots often are accused of flying while drunk and failing to maintain their aircraft.

29.   The Defense Ministry said the pilot of the plane ejected safely into the sea just off the southern tip of the Peloponnese.

30.   The government said the pilot and two crew members were Russian and all three had survived the crash.