CROATIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY CORRECTS ITS STATEMENT ON U.N. PLANE

ZAGREB, March 8 (Hina) - The Croatian defence ministry issued a correction of a previously released statement concerning the emergency landing of a Spanish UN aircraft at Krk airport on Tuesday. "Shortly after 11 a.m. today, a Spanish UN aircraft took off from Zagreb for Split. While over the Serb-controlled Plasko area a rocket was fired at the plane, missing the target. Then the Cesna aircraft came under anti-aircraft machinegun fire and was hit in the tail at 11:32 hours. It is quite certain that the rocket was fired by Serb rebel forces of the so-called 39 Banija Corps. Four crewmen and five passangers were aboard the plane, and three people were slightly wounded. The plane made an emergency landing at Krk airport (on the northern Adriatic island of Krk) at 12:52 hours," the statement said. 082038 MET mar 94