Posted on 08/24/2004 4:23:06 PM PDT by inkling
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 Wednesday. There was no word on survivors.
Witnesses reported seeing an explosion before the plane crashed, and 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. Tuesday, 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 any 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 Volgograd, while the plane that disappeared was flying to the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, where President Vladimir Putin is vacationing, ITAR-Tass reported.
When Russia's U.N. Ambassador Andrey Denisov was told of the initial report of two near simultaneous crashes, he said, "Now we have to see if there's terrorism."
MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Witnesses saw an explosion on board a Russian passenger plane just before it crashed late on Tuesday near the town of Tula, Interfax news agency quoted local authorities as saying on Wednesday.
The Emergencies Ministry said a three-engine TU-134 with 34 passengers and eight crew flying from Moscow to Volgograd crashed near Tula. It said another plane, a four-engine TU-154 with 44 passengers and eight crew on board, went missing near the southern city of Rostov-on-Don
Terrorism is war.....no?
No Nukes allowed!
/sarcasm
It's really starting to look that way, according to FOX...
Find the Black Boxky!
Two down within minutes...
Is this the "major" event that was to happen?....
FNC is still reporting they don't know what has happened to the second plane with 52 aboard.
Putin has ordered an investigation by the organization that took over from the KGB (can't think of it's name)
And still hinting at a terrorist attack.
I wonder how Russia will cover this.
Blame it on the rebels... or just say it is an accident.
CNN
:-(
Terrorists? Nonsense, I bet it was defective fuel tank wiring.
Answer:.......strange 'UFO' from planet 'kerry'.
terrorism is overstated sez johnkerry
Terrorist Stinger Missile field test.
"The first plane disappeared from radar at 10:56 p.m. (2:56 p.m. ET), the news agency said.
The second plane, a Tupolev-154, disappeared from radar at 10:59 p.m. (2:59 p.m. ET) after having taken off from the same airport en route to Sochi, a tourist resort on the Black Sea in southern Russia, the ministry spokeswoman reported."
Quite a "coincidence".
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/24/russia.planecrash/index.html
funny...but I think we may hear that from Russia
One word..Chechnya
See also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198547/posts
Keep in mind this is Russia. The basic facts
of what we think we know could be mistaken.
Also keep in mind that this has happened at
night there.
So who cares?
John Kerry says it's much much more important to give schools more money, raise minimum wage, give elderly people more buying power obtaining drugs.....yada yada yada.
Oh. And pull our troops out of Iraq.
And yada yada.
Poor maintenance........
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