Airline officials said 16 people, including three crew members, were aboard the plane, operated by Merpati Nusantara airlines.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

New York Congressman Peter King, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, was briefed by intelligence officials shortly after the plane landed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

He too parachuted from his aircraft. It was a U2 reconnaissance plane shot down by a Soviet missile of Sverdlovsk on May 1,1960.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

Both plane makers are cushioned by order backlogs of around 3,500 planes.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout by the families of the victims, and Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan flew out of Mogadishu on a chartered plane Wednesday, by gunmen on a road outside of Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26