1.   All three fighter planes were intercepted and destroyed.

2.   Before the officials agreed on the shoot-down policy, Air Force jets had attempted to intercept the plane that hit the Pentagon.

3.   After the hijackers give up the ship and depart Egypt by air, their plane is intercepted by Navy fighters over the Mediterranean and forced down in Italy.

4.   Air Force officials at the Pentagon said they could neither confirm nor deny that fighter jets had been scrambled to intercept the plane.

5.   But U.S. intelligence analysts say these statements exaggerate the victory at intercepting drug planes, and that coca base is still reaching Colombia from Bolivia and Peru.

6.   Fighter jets will intercept planes in restricted areas and force them to land at the nearest airport.

7.   If military jets intercepted the commercial plane, then a tall building would be attacked.

8.   The Customs Service and CIA also began to fly smaller Citation surveillance aircraft to help Peruvian pilots intercept small planes.

9.   Under the program, American surveillance aircraft identify suspected drug planes and inform the Peruvians, who intercept the planes.

10.   When planes are intercepted, they typically are handled with a graduated response.