> Put your Achems Razor hat on ...
One Russian airliner loss is usually an accident due
to incompetent maint, drunken pilot, overloading, etc.
Two within minutes raises Occam from his nap, and
suggests deliberate action.
> ... when the first plane went down it took out the
> second plane ...
Nope. Hundreds of miles apart.
It doesn't seem to hold up. They didn't find the wreckage of the second plane until a day later.