51.   UN officials and Croatian Serbs said the aircraft came down over Serb-held territory in neighbouring Croatia.

52.   It was unclear what caused the aircraft to come down in a pine forest.

53.   Munasinghe said that on Saturday the Avro aircraft came under LTTE missile attack outside the Palaly airfield.

54.   Officials here declined to say how many times NATO aircraft came under fire, but at least one French Mirage was lost to a Serb missile.

55.   Now it is preferring not to comment at all about when the aircraft might come into service.

56.   The aircraft was coming into land on a controversial flight path taking it over the Tararua Ranges, part of the central mountainous spine of the North Island.

57.   The cause of the crash was not yet known but the aircraft came down near some high tension cables, the police spokeswoman said.

58.   The defence spokesman would not say where the aircraft had come from.