From: "Bill dunn" <billdunn2@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:15 PM > re Austrian plane forced to land > why was it forced to land -and who forced it to land was it forced to > land by > a military aircraft and why? where there hijackers on board? or was > this aircraft > had a theat against it? > The plane (a Fokker jet) suffered some mechanical failure which required it to land in a farm field without serious injury to anyone. The exact failure was not identified in the story, which stated the pilot showed unusual skill. I agree that it would be helpful if Alireza would quote at least a little of the messages about which he comments. Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html