1.  Professor Ivan Smith was prompted to make his accident findings public after the recent shooting down of an Italian plane over Bosnia.

2.  In another sanctions dispute, U.S. officials considered Wednesday how to respond to an illegal flight into Baghdad by an Italian plane that was taking anti-sanctions campaigners to Iraq.

3.  Karzai is to escort Zahir Shah and his family back to Afghanistan aboard Italian military planes outfitted against possible missile strikes.

4.  They were flown in an Italian plane bearing UN markings to the Netherlands.

5.  Papacostas said an Italian plane, with three police on board, arrived earlier Tuesday to fly the three Italian-bound Palestinians from Cyprus.

6.  Also Monday, an Italian military plane picked up the body of a U.N. military observer killed by gunmen in Afghanistan a day after the attacks.

7.  Also Monday, an Italian military plane picked up the body of a U.N. military observer killed by unknown gunmen in Afghanistan a day after the attacks.

8.  An Italian plane, flying over the Adriatic, had reported spotting the MiG.

9.  Italian Ambassador Romueldo Bettini said the Iraqi girl would be flown out of Jordan immediately aboard an Italian military plane to Niguarda Hospital in Milan.

10.  Nine of them left aboard a Spanish military aircraft and three left aboard the Italian plane.