51.   South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki is expected in the Zairean capital Kinshasa Friday night, Zairean Information Minister Kin-Kiey Mulumba said.

52.   The Congolese capital is only miles away, across the Congo River from the Zairean capital.

53.   The exercise was at a hangar at an abandoned military airstrip at Brazzaville airport, across the Zaire River from the Zairean capital Kinshasa.

54.   The five survivors were taken to the Zairean capital Kinshasa where they were admitted to Ngaliema clinic and Kinshasa Medical Center, officials in the neighbouring country said.