31.   Another Hawk crashed in a rice paddy near an air base in northwestern Malaysia last month and the pilot ejected safely.

32.   Both pilots apparently ejected from their planes and one of them was rescued by the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, said force spokesman Toshimi Okimoto.

33.   Both pilots ejected and were picked up from the water by small craft in the vicinity.

34.   Both the pilots apparently ejected from their planes and one of them was rescued by the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, said Toshimi Okimoto, a JASDF spokesman.

35.   Both pilots ejected, but their parachutes failed to open because of the low altitude of the plane as it approached the airport, in the Sverdlovsk region.

36.   But a NATO spokesman said the pilot of an accompanying plane did not see the pilot eject from the single-seat jet before it crashed.

37.   Defense Secretary William Perry said Sunday that the Pentagon has found no evidence that the pilot ejected before his plane crashed.

38.   He did not see the pilot eject.

39.   It said the pilot ejected.

40.   Its pilot ejected safely.