1.   A Russian airplane hijacked to Israel raised concerns that Muslim Chechen rebels had engineered the stunt to show solidarity with rioting Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

2.   A union leader in this city best known as the center of Russian airplane design, he has watched in dismay as the enormous industry has withered to nothing.

3.   In the first day of fighting, a Russian airplane accidentally struck a police station near one of the rebel bases, killing several Dagestani policemen.

4.   Kornukov denied charges made Monday by the government of nearby Georgia that Russian airplanes had bombed a Georgian village.

5.   A black cat hiding among the wires and cables of a Russian airplane delayed a Kazan-Moscow flight for seven hours, a Russian news agency reported Tuesday.

6.   A Japanese medical team that had treated survivors in Sakhalin arrived at Hakodate airport Monday aboard a Russian airplane.

7.   A Russian airplane was supposed to fly over their route Wednesday, but a shortage of fuel stopped it from taking off.

8.   Hijackers of Russian airplane identified as Chechens, Turkish transport minister says.

9.   Hijacker of Russian airplane surrenders in Estonia.

10.   In Grozny, Russian airplanes were raining bombs and missiles for the fifth straight day.