1.   But the modest Czechs say the Russian pilots are even better.

2.   And the United States intervened last summer to help persuade the Taliban to free Russian pilots they were holding hostage.

3.   A Chechen state security officer said the fire was set by members of the Chechen opposition to help Russian pilots locate the Chechen rebel headquarters.

4.   After the Russian pilot pleaded, saying he would crash, a jet fighter accompanied the plane to its landing.

5.   Russian pilots have flown in tons of weapons in unmarked planes.

6.   Russian pilots flying old Russian-built planes run small local airlines.

7.   Police said the Russian pilot and co-pilot died.

8.   A cargo plane crashed while trying to land in eastern Angola, killing its Russian pilot and injuring seven other people, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported Wednesday.

9.   A third Russian pilot working in Iran has died of methyl alcohol poisoning, an official said Sunday.

10.   Dnevni Telegraf said a Ukrainian transport plane landed in Belgrade early Monday, carrying the bodies of Turcinovic and a Russian pilot also was killed in Zaire.