The World - News from June 17, 1987

Honduras said its troops captured two men who were aboard a plane that crash-landed in Honduras after it was shot down over Nicaragua. A military spokesman said that a patrol captured the pilot and co-pilot, who he said were being questioned. The official denied that the plane had taken off from Honduras. In Miami, a spokesman for the U.S.-based contras had no immediate comment. In Managua, the Defense Ministry asserted that the plane, which it said was shot down during an attack on a Sandinista base, belonged to the Nicaraguan Democratic Front, the largest of the contra groups.