1.  That appeared to set up the potential for confrontation between Iraqi pilots and U.S. airmen enforcing the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq.

2.  An Iraqi pilot aboard a U.N. helicopter prevented the inspectors from photographing the Iraqi aircraft.

3.  Iraqi pilots and anti-aircraft batteries have been targeting U.S. and British warplanes over the southern and northern no-fly zones since late December.

4.  Iraqi pilots and anti-aircraft batteries have been targeting U.S. and British warplanes over the zones since late December.

5.  An Iraqi pilot and his cousin defected to the Kurdish-controlled north of the country by helicopter on Saturday, an Iraqi Kurd opposition group said.

6.  An Iraqi pilot defected to the Kurdish-controlled north of the country on board a helicopter on Saturday, the Iraqi opposition said.

7.  The south said it had captured five Iraqi pilots on Friday at the frontline in Shabwa, an oil rich eastern province.

8.  The Yemeni authorities in Sanaa on Monday denied southern claims that five Iraqi pilots fighting for the north had been captured, saying the men were teachers.

9.  Several foreign civil aviation companies have sent instructors to Baghdad to train Iraqi pilots and technicians, Iraqi Airways director general Rabih Mohammad Saleh said in press comments Wednesday.