41.   Asked about reports of mercenaries in Zaire, Bonino said she had seen an Antonov plane land and that mercenaries had got out of it.

42.   Perpignan assistant prosecutor Robert Chelles, in charge of the inquiry, appealed for witnesses who saw the plane land to come forward.

43.   The plane lands at Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, where German crack unit frees the hostages.