Posted on 12/24/2016 9:17:32 PM PST by PghBaldy
A Russian plane has disappeared from radar just minutes after take-off from the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russian media say.
They are quoting a source at the emergency ministry as saying the missing aircraft is a Tu-154.
Between 70 and 100 people are reported to be on board the plane.
Unconfirmed reports say the aircraft belongs to the defence ministry, flying to Syria's Latakia province. Russian officials have so far made no comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Granted that the 154 does not have the greatest safety record.
But no SOS call is ominous
Obama has gone over the brink.
God help us.
Arming ISIS is something that should have landed him in prison.
If Obama is responsible for this there is going to be HELL to pay.
I don’t thin khe would do something this stupid as Putin understands that he could totally FK Obama over by saying to Trump: Prosecute and convict Obama for war crimes when you take office or you start your term with a war on your hands.
If it was undeniably the US there should be 1 million patriots crashing the WH gates on new years eve. Start the new year off getting rid of a bunch of islime sympathizers , enemy agents, and communists.
8 Crew
8 military staff
2 Federal civil servants
1 from an aid organization
9 Press
64 Red Army Choir
http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12106925@egNews (In Russian)
Head of military police of Russia’s defence ministry Vladimir Ivanovsky was onboard the crashed Tupolev-154:
https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/812936887627350016
There is a show on DirecTV about airplane crash investigations around the world. The other night was the one about the president of Poland’s plane crashing a few years ago in Russia, and it was a Russian air plane. They guys on there were saying that Russia AVERAGED 10 crashes a year and people over there just took air plane crashes as normal and a part of doing business. So, a plane crash in Russia is nothing new, we just don’t hear about them as much as we do over here.
The Tu-154 was carrying a lot of classified papers.
http://www.fontanka.ru/2016/12/25/016/?utm_source=novapress (In Russian)
...and it had too much cargo. That might explain the crash.
http://www.fontanka.ru/2016/12/25/032/
(In Russian)
The Tu-154 was carrying a lot of classified papers.
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Ours or theirs?
I guess a lot of maps etc from Moscow for their operations in the ME.
Soon they will send some underwater rescue equipment, expect a lot of activities at the crash site.
Index
Yes. That is the Leningrad Cowboys (Finnish group) & the Red Army Choir/Alexandrov Ensemble, though probably many different members now.
Very good point. They do have, like much of the world, much different safety levels than the US.
First body recovered, some debris found. 1.5 km off coast https://www.rt.com/on-air/
Not good.
How awful.
They’re ruling out terrorism pretty quickly it seems.
Lots of info here. Red Army Choir was aboard.
Bkmk
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