CUBAN TV SHOWS PHOTOS OF ITEMS FROM DOWNED PLANES.

Byline: James Anderson Associated Press 

Cuban television broadcast photos of a black satchel, a battery charger and some navigation charts Sunday, items it said were recovered after a MiG jet fighter shot two U.S. civilian planes out of the sky.

The Noticiero Nacional de Television report offered Cuba's most comprehensive chronology yet of the events preceding the shooting. The report said the planes were warned they were approaching a "danger zone" and a pilot responded that "we are ready" to enter it "as free Cubans."

Two planes from the Florida-based group Brothers to the Rescue were shot down by missiles fired from a MiG-29 fighter jet on the afternoon of Feb. 24. Four pilots were killed.

The group and U.S. authorities say the incident occurred outside Cuban airspace, which extends 12 miles from the coast. Cuba has said the shootdown occurred within its airspace.

The Cuban chronology was consistent with transcripts released by the U.S. government, but did little to clarify the dispute over where the planes were shot down.

Both countries mounted searches for possible survivors and wreckage after the shooting. The United States found nothing.

A day after the shooting, Cuban searchers recovered a satchel, navigation charts and a plug-in battery charger 9.3 miles north of the coast, the report said. Like its airspace, Cuba's territorial waters extend 12 miles from the coast.

The report cited previous penetrations of Cuba's airspace, and said that beginning Feb. 19, Cuba had notified international aviation authorities that "danger zones" would be in effect.