Posted on 12/25/2016 2:34:13 PM PST by RitchieAprile
Rescue helicopters have discovered debris in the Black Sea from a Russian military transport plane which went off radar en route to Syria. Most of the passengers on the Tu-154 were members of the famous Alexandrov Ensemble army choir.
According to the latest information, the Tupolev transport plane had 92 people on board, including 84 passengers and eight crew members. It went missing over the Black Sea at 2:40 GMT shortly after refueling at an airport near Sochi. Most of the passengers on board were members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, the official choir of the Russian Armed Forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said. They were travelling from Moscow to the Russian military base Khmeimim near Latakia, Syria to take part in a Christmas celebration with troops deployed there. The head of the choir, conductor and composer Valery Khalilov, is among over 60 members of the ensemble killed in the accident. Crews from Channel One Russia, NTV, and Zvezda (the official media outlet of the Russian Defense Ministry), each with three members, were on board as well, the outlets confirmed. The passenger list released by the defense ministry also includes Elizaveta Glinka, a prominent charity activist and humanitarian worker. She is best known by her blogger nickname “Doctor Liza.” Some reports initially said she may have deplaned in Sochi, but the Presidential Council for Human Rights confirmed that she was on board.
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And 0dunga said "we can do stuff too"
Very Sad! Prayers for the lost!!
YouTube of a performance of a Cossack song:
I wonder who’s responsible. For sure some Muslims, but which?
“I wonder who’s responsible. For sure some Muslims, but which?”
You can blame the commies that ripped off American technology and then built the TU-154.
Very sad. Most likely, the majority if not all were Christians.
Aren’t they saying technical failure?
We can say a prayer for their families who are
no doubt suffering at this time.
May peace be upon them. Amen.
Oh, that’s very sad. All those bereaved families.
Yes, prayers up.
Very sad.
That is what was also reported early in the aftermath of the Russian airliner blown up over Egypt.
There are several videos up now showing a brief, bright flash in the sky where the plane was.
I am hoping it was an accident. If intentional, the last chapter of 2016 hasn’t been written yet, one big act left.
ISIS is my bet—its too much of a coinsidence that it would crash on its way to Syria to give a Christmas show—Like the Japanese shooting down Bob Hope or the Nazis getting Tommy Dorsey in 1944.
Other posting at the following threads from different
sources, info, etc if anyone care to review them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3508059/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3508048/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3508044/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3508030/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3508028/posts
Very sad.
Or the Nazis getting Glenn Miller, whose plane crashed in the English Channel in 1944? Except they didn’t shoot down Glenn Miller. Sometimes accidents happen. Particularly when third world countries like Russia try to project military power well beyond their borders.
We Americans who understand that Obama is trying to pressure Russia into war & has recently authorized distribution of MANPADS anti-aircraft missiles to ISIS-linked forces can only hope that there is no connection....
Isis or obama.
Too juicy a treat to give Trump.
"Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. "
As you say.
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