Now they are saying the Alexandrov Ensemble (aka Red Army Choir) was on board too.
I hope we didn’t shoot it down.
We Americans who understand that Obama is trying to pressure Russia into war & has recently authorized distribution of MANPADS anti-aircraft missiles to ISIS-linked forces can only hope that there is no connection....
Obama: “And we will, at a time and place of our own choosing.”
“Some of it may be explicit and publicized,” the pResident added. “Some of it may not be.”
Prayers for the people who were on board that plane....and hopes for survivors. :(
We Americans who understand that Obama is trying to pressure Russia into war & has recently authorized distribution of MANPADS anti-aircraft missiles to ISIS-linked forces can only hope that there is no connection....
Remaining TU-154s in service are so old as to be virtual death traps, anyway. Given the aircraft type, this can’t be assumed as terrorism yet.
“Our goal continues to be to send a clear message to Russia or others not to do this to us, because we can do stuff to you.”
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)
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.
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Not good.
How awful.
They’re ruling out terrorism pretty quickly it seems.
Lots of info here. Red Army Choir was aboard.
Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir sing SWEET HOME ALABAMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrg0X9H6FGU&list=RDJrg0X9H6FGU
Via Zero Hedge, no survivors:
Ministry spokesman, Major-General Igor Konashenkov, told reporters that nobody had survived. The Tupolev transport plane had 92 people on board, including 84 passengers and eight crew members.
“The area of the crash site has been established. No survivors have been spotted,” he said. An unnamed ministry source told Russian news agencies no life rafts had been found, while another source told the Interfax agency that the plane had not sent an SOS signal.
Russia’s RIA news agency, citing an unidentified security source, said preliminary information indicated that the plane had crashed because of a technical malfunction or a pilot error. Another source told Russian agencies that the possibility of a militant act had been ruled out. The weather had been good
ODUMBI gives money to chechyan rebels, tells them where to find a sam and when the plane is leaving.....cause Russian made Hillary lose?
Song by an earlier soloist, 1963 IIRC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh0x01tts7E