Posted on 08/24/2004 8:41:49 PM PDT by HAL9000
THE Russian plane that went missing around the time as another jet crashed issued a signal indicating a hijacking or seizure before disappearing from radar, the Interfax news agency has reported.The signal came at 11:04 pm yesterday (0404 AEST today) from the Tu-154 airliner that went missing in southern Russia's Rostov region, Interfax quoted a source in Russia's "power structures" as saying.
Emergency workers were still searching for the plane hours after it disappeared from radar screens on a flight from Moscow to the Black Sea resort city of Sochi.
The source said the signal was activated shortly before the plane disappeared.
Another passenger jet that went missing at about the same time crashed in the Tula region south of Moscow. There was no word on survivors among the 89 people believed to be aboard the two planes.
Dog may well have nailed this - were they trying to hijack the planes and crash them into the place where Putin was on vacation?
Oh boy... you just knew two planes going down at once was not a coincidence.
Hadn't heard this yet......
uh oh don't tick off Russia they don't worry about public opinion...
And knowing the fate of the people who didn't fight back on 911, the Russians fought back and forced the planes to crash.
I can't imagine Russians not doing one.
It would be interesting to know about Russia's post 9-11 anti-hijacking planning. Wonder if their pilots have orders to skuttle aircraft rather than let them be comandeered for dive bombing into the Kremlin?
how did they get control of the cokcpit to begin with?
I don't know. They have been conditioned not to resist for 70 years.
Sounds like it
The "religion of peace" has really hit the limit here. I hope we can find a way to send an appropriate message that would be understoood by even the most neolithic of these savages.
I don't know about the passengers, but I'd be willing to bet the flight crew flew it into the ground rather than give it up to hijackers.
That or maybe they thought he was aboard. Are there any graphics showing where the two planes went down? Distance from each other?
Dog may have it right though, makes sense, unfortunately.
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Chechen or not, it'll be interesting to see how Putin handles this. Here, the dems and the media try to force us to play footsie with scumbags.
Please, forgive my ignorance. Who is Dog?
I still wouldn't be surprised if the talking heads say that this fact does not necessarily mean it was terrorism.
Dog is a smart freeper.
Dog - freepers think you nailed it correctly about Russian planes.
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