Posted on 08/24/2004 3:01:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
As at least one airliner was at or near cruise altitude, this is highly unlikely.
I concur.
Ambrose, I want you to know that episode scared the crap out of me as a kid (my Dad loved the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits). Gremlins.
This from Airliners.net chat:
MSNBC speaking with a Russian Affiliate live! right now! 6:40PM EDT, in the US.
Apparently, he's saying the 2nd plane has only lost contact and is not officially confirmed as crashed but if it has crashed he's saying that it's a "HIGH POSSIBILITY" it could be a terrorist attack (probably chechnyan). The first plane is reported to have exploded in mid-air by a wittness
It looks like they took off around the same time and they went down about the same time. Sounds to me more like a timed explosion, rather than ground to air. I don't believe this is an accident as most accidents occur shortly after takeoff or shortly before landing. These were apparently in mid-flight. Hmmm.
THere's .... some ...THING ...On ... thewing
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Hmmmm, I presume this photo, with yourself so prominently posing in the foreqround, was taken after the fall of the Soviet Union? :-)
Not silly at all. There are no plausible non-terrorist explanations. OTOH, ramp security is a joke. For a case of vodka you could have the run of the place, especially at night.
Wanna bet a Moslem ramper fails to show up for work tommorow?
And all the U.S. airports with sloppy ramp security... it's going to be an interesting few weeks, at least.
Possible war in Georgia???!!! Ohmgosh! I have relatives in Atlanta!
These planes had to be at cruising altitude, far above the range of shoulder-fired missiles, I'd suspect.
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian airliner crashed south of Moscow, and another passenger jet went missing about the same time after both took off from Moscow, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Tuesday. There was no word on survivors.
Authorities were not ruling out terrorism, the agency said.
A Tu-134 airliner that apparently had 42 people aboard crashed in the Tula region, 125 miles south of Moscow, at about 10:56 p.m. Monday, ITAR-Tass reported, citing the Emergency Situations Ministry.
A Tu-154 with 44 people aboard went missing about the same time near Rostov-on-Don, about 600 miles south of Moscow, but authorities had not found the wreckage, ITAR-Tass said.
Earlier, however, the agency said emergency officials reported that the second plane crashed about three minutes after the first one.
Quoting an unnamed air traffic official in Moscow, where both planes originated, ITAR-Tass said authorities were not ruling out terrorism. The agency also reported that witnesses said they saw an explosion before the Tula region crash.
The plane that crashed near Tula was headed to the southern city of Vologograd, while the plane that disappeared was flying to the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, where President Vladimir Putin is vacationing, ITAR-Tass reported.
In Washington, a senior U.S. State Department official said, “We are obviously concerned by the news. We’re following developments closely and trying to determine the facts.”
What could it hurt, we are not policy makers after all.
I'm no aviation expert, but here is the data for Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Weather > Russia > Rostov-on-Don
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It now seems the second plane is "missing". How far from Rostov-on-Don to Athens?
They have better sense than the AA587 spinners.
Good question! Maybe hijackers aboard, taking it somewhere ...
I am glad to see that I am not alone in my own musings.
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