31.   Early on, U.S. officials suggested that El Batouty had deliberately downed the plane as an act of suicide.

32.   EgyptAir has rejected any assertions that one of its pilots deliberately downed the plane, saying the crash may have been caused by a mechanical problem in the tail.

33.   He also discounted speculation that a missile, possibly from a Navy training exercise, downed the plane.

34.   He had his toughest words yet for the terrorists who attacked New York and Washington and downed a plane in the Pennsylvania countryside.

35.   Habyarimana was returning from a regional summit on implementation of a power-sharing agreement in the peace accord when his plane was downed by unidentified assailants.

36.   In that tragedy, TWA officials said their first priority was to investigate the possibility that a terrorist attack downed the plane.

37.   Investigators suspect an in-flight explosion downed the plane.

38.   Iraq had claimed to have downed a plane Monday, but was never able to produce wreckage and the Western allies said they lost no jets.

39.   NATO officials also denied a Serbian report Saturday that another NATO plane was downed in the afternoon.

40.   One Ethiopian plane was downed and the pilot captured.