Complex sentence: With their aircraft destroyed, the Egyptian force and the Cypriot National Guard exchanged heavy gunfire for nearly an hour in sporadic fighting on the open tarmac, with some of the Egyptian troops take cover in a nearby empty Air France aircraft.
Split into simpler sentences: With their aircraft destroyed, the Egyptian force and the Cypriot National Guard exchanged heavy gunfire for nearly an hour in sporadic fighting on the open tarmac. Some of the Egyptian troops toke cover in a nearby empty Air France aircraft.