Posted on 08/24/2004 3:01:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Per Foxnews Alert. Into the red sea.
60 people aboard the first one.
And better sense than those who blame every freaking crash on terrorism.
Hmmm...well, it seems that Moscow's air controller center also is considering the possibility of a terrorist attack. Near as I can determine, most folks on here are merely speculating as to what the cause might be, and most are inclined to believe terrorism is the likely cause -- not definite, but likely. There is a difference.
Latest bulletin from Agence France Press:
MOSCOW (AFP) One Russian airliner has crashed in central Russia and another is missing in the country's south, Russia's emergency ministry said.
A Tu-134 aircraft with 34 passengers and eight crew on board was en route to Russia's southern city of Volgograd when it disappeared off radar screens late Tuesday, the ministry's spokeswoman Marina Ryklina said.
Its tail was later found near the village of Buchalki in the Tula region some 180 kilometers (110 miles) south of Moscow, Ryklina said. The fate of passengers and crew was unclear.
Local emergency ministry officials cited witness reports of an explosion aboard before the airplane went down, the Interfax news agency reported.
In a separate case, a Tu-154 airplane with 44 people on board went missing near the southern city of Rostov-on-Don while on the way to the Black Sea resort of Sochi, officials said.
Both airplanes dropped off radar screens within minutes of each other, a source in Moscow's air controller center told the ITAR-TASS news agency, adding that he could not exclude the possibility of a terrorist act.
Amen...the Laci Peterson trial got old last year.
Also known as Aeroflop and Scareoflot.
/sarcasm
Hijackers don't make planes disappear from radar, with no mayday. This was the work of one man, on the ground, at the airport both planes departed from.
You are correct. There was a case a few years ago of a jet airliners that unknowingly fly through a volcanic ash cloud above Indonesia, on the way to Australia. They were able to stay in the air for quite some time, in a descent, until they could get the engines re-started. 35,000 feet gives you a lot of time to work with if you still have control of the plane.</p>
These were medium-range jets. The one that crashed in southern Russia was still hundreds of miles from Athens.
If that is the case..I wold think Putin would be the one in danger as it is obvious the plane has enough fuel to get there (since that was it's destination). I have no idea how far Greece is from the present location or the range of a TU-154.
And of course people here refuse to realize the truth that eyewitnesses are wrong in almost every crash.
60 and 44 passengers? Sounds like two private *commuter* planes. Still... let's wait until more data comes in.
Actually, it looks more line a Trident than a 727.
Flew a Cubana flight once. Russian turboprop. It had throw rugs!
Then why only two? Keep guessing, you will one day see the light.
I understand caution, no one wants to look like one of those who jumped to the conclusion of muslim terrorists at OKC , yet it's just as silly to look like CNN on 9/11.
"This could always be a signal for another bigger terrorist attack???"
Oh, crap! That has to be considered as a possibility!
Yep, so far the media can't even get the type of planes right. Some say both where TU-154's while others say one was a TU-154 and the other was a TU-134.
Then again, AA587 was a Boeing 767, a Boeing A300, an Airbus 767, a Boeing-Airbus 767/300, and they finally got it right as an Airbus A300-600R.
Re: the second plane ... can they turn off the plane's radar signal, so no one can track it?
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