Posted on 08/22/2006 6:31:34 AM PDT by RDTF
KIEV, Ukraine - An airliner flying from southern Russia to St. Petersburg crashed on Tuesday in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry said.
The ministry said helicopters circling the site about 30 miles north of the regional town of Donetsk saw the aircraft, a Russian-made Tupolev 154, in flames.
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said 160 passengers and 10 crew were aboard the aircraft belonging to Pulkovo Airlines.
The Interfax news agency, citing the ministry, said 30 bodies had been found.
There was no word on whether anyone survived.
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The jet, on its way from the Black Sea resort of Anapa to St. Petersburg, disappeared from radar screens after sending an SOS message, a Russian emergency official said.
Igor Krol, a spokesman for the Ukrainian ministry, said that according to preliminary information a fire broke out in the plane at an altitude of 33,000 feet. The crew then decided to make an emergency landing.
Shoe bomber? Exploding liquids? Prayers for all the lost souls.
It's Aug 22...
Isn't it the 23rd there? Or not yet?
hmmm I don't know!
Not until 4:30PM.
bump
Not the 23rd yet - Ukraine is north & a bit west of Iraq which is eight hours ahead of us.
Severe turbulence?
KIEV (AFX) - A Russian airliner with 170 passengers and crew aboard crashed today in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian officials said.
'A Tupolev 154 flying from Anapa to Saint Petersburg sent a distress signal at 3.37 pm. At 3.39 it disappeared from radar screens,' a spokeswoman for Russia's emergency situations ministry told Agence France-Presse in Moscow.
A spokesman for Ukraine's emergency situations ministry also confirmed that the plane had gone down.
The reason for the crash was not immediately clear but Interfax news agency quoted the head of Russia's air traffic control service as saying that the plane went down after entering an area of severe air turbulence.
Ukrainian ministry spokesman Igor Krol said that Ukrainian rescue teams had located the wreckage of the plane, Interfax news agency reported.
'The plane is burning on the ground,' Interfax quoted Krol as saying.
Oh thank you. I'm quite hopeless with time differences. I can't grasp that perception very well.
I am more inclined to believe the first report of the fire onboard
http://www.artukraine.com/newsgallery.htm
08/22/2006 / 16:39 | Tu-154 Passenger Plane Cashes In Donetsk Region
Tu-154 passenger plane crashed in Dzerzhynskyi district, Donetsk region on Tuesday.
Representative of the main department of the Emergency Situations and Protection of Population from Chornobyl Accident Consequences Ministry has disclosed this in a statement to Ukrainian News.
She said that ministry working group has already arrived to the site of the accident.
Emergency Situations Ministry press service head Ihor Krol told Ukrainian News that about 2:30 pm, Russian Tu-154 plane disappeared from radar screens. The plane flew from Anapa to Saint Petersburg (Russia) through Ukraine.
He said that it is yet unknown whether the plane had crashed or made an emergency landing.
A total of four helicopters of the Emergency Situations Ministry flew to the site of the accident.
ACCIDENT DETAILS Date: October 04, 2001 Time: 13:44 Location: 110 miles SW of Sochi, Russia Operator: Sibir Airlines Flight #: 1812 Route: Tel Aviv - Novosibirsk, Russia AC Type: Tupolev Tu-154M Registration: RA-85693 cn / ln: 90A-866 Aboard: 78 (passengers:66 crew:12) Fatalities: 78 (passengers:66 crew:12) Ground: 0 Summary: The aircraft exploded in mid-air at 36,000 ft. while en route over the Black Sea. The plane then nose- dived crashing into the water. The airliner was brought down accidentally by a Ukrainian surface-to-air missile, fired during military exercises.
ACCIDENT DETAILS Date: August 24, 2004 Time: 22:56 Location: Near Toula, Russia Operator: Volga-Avia Express Flight #: 1303 Route: Moscow - Volograd AC Type: Tupolev 134A-3 Registration: RA-65080 cn / ln: 60065 Aboard: 41 (passengers:34 crew:7) Fatalities: 41 (passengers:34 crew:7) Ground: 0 Summary: The plane crashed 26 minutes after taking off from Moscow. Witnesses stated they saw the plane explode in midair before crashing. It crashed almost simultaneously with a Sibir Tupolov154 which crashed at 22:59. Detonation of an exposive device aboard.
ACCIDENT DETAILS Date: August 24, 2004 Time: 22:59 Location: Near Rostov-on-Don, Russia Operator: Sibir Airlines Flight #: 1047 Route: Moscow - Sochi AC Type: Tupolev 154B-2 Registration: RA-85556 cn / ln: 82A-556 Aboard: 46 (passengers:38 crew:8) Fatalities: 46 (passengers:38 crew:8) Ground: 0 Summary: The plane crashed 19 minutes after taking off from Moscow. It crashed almost simultaneously with a Volga- Avia Express Tupolov134 which crashed at 22:56. Detonation of an exposive device aboard.
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