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TWO Russian Airliners Have Crashed.
Posted on 08/24/2004 3:01:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Per Foxnews Alert. Into the red sea.
60 people aboard the first one.
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To: dread78645
Two planes, same departure airport. No calls for assistance, no mayday. No 7700. 4 min of each other.
Bombs
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:16:35 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Kill all Islamic terrorists now. Then they cannot kill our sons and daughters tomorrow)
To: Husker24
Report: Two Russian Airliners Crash 8 minutes ago
By STEVE GUTTERMAN, Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW - Two Russian airliners carrying a total of more than 100 people crashed south of Moscow, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Tuesday. There was no word on survivors.
The first plane was carrying 54 passengers and a crew of eight when it crashed in the Tula region near the village of Buchalki, the agency said, citing a duty officer at the regional center for civil defense and emergencies. The Tula region is about 110 miles south of Moscow.
The second plane was carrying 44 people when it crashed near Rostov, the agency said, citing an Inter-State Aviation Committee official. Rostov is about 600 miles south of Moscow.
Both planes were Tupolev Tu-154 jets, a medium-range airliner.
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:16:35 PM PDT
by
Gazoo
To: ncdrumr
What are the odds on that timing?
Has to be terrorism.
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:16:36 PM PDT
by
The KG9 Kid
(Semper Fi)
To: eno_
Same airport. Night shift. One bomber, with access to luggage of both planes. That's what it'll be. Another possibility could be fuel contamination. If both airliners were fueled at nearly the same time, it could easily have happened.
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:16:53 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(I Annoy Buchananites)
To: NJ_gent
It is that creepy grem,linb dude from the Twilight Zone "Terror at 20,000 Feet" starring William Shatner. He was on the wing of the plane trying to make it crash by pulling up the fuselage and getting to some critical circuitry. Shatner, a former mental patient, finally shoots the gremlin (no one else ever saw it, so they assumed Shatner was still crazy), thereby saving all the passengers.
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:16:54 PM PDT
by
Zebra
To: johnb838
Report: Two Russian Airliners Crash
By STEVE GUTTERMAN, Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW - Two Russian airliners carrying a total of more than 100 people crashed south of Moscow, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Tuesday. There was no word on survivors.
The first plane was carrying 54 passengers and a crew of eight when it crashed in the Tula region near the village of Buchalki, the agency said, citing a duty officer at the regional center for civil defense and emergencies. The Tula region is about 110 miles south of Moscow.
The second plane was carrying 44 people when it crashed near Rostov, the agency said, citing an Inter-State Aviation Committee official. Rostov is about 600 miles south of Moscow.
Both planes were Tupolev Tu-154 jets, a medium-range airliner.
Click
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:17:03 PM PDT
by
deport
( "fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.")
To: MindBender26
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:17:07 PM PDT
by
The KG9 Kid
(Semper Fi)
To: RobFromGa
"what are the other 300 that come to mind for you, except midair collision."
Bizarre coincidental mechanical failures. Mistaken news reports (one place down, other fine or never existed). Attack by the state of Georgia. (There was a story about a possible war erupting between Georgia and Russia posted earlier today) Extreme weather conditions we haven't been made aware of yet (sudden air pressure changes in a localized area).
There are a lot of possibilities that are as likely or more likely than a coordinated terrorist attack successfully downing two jets in Russia. I'm not discounting terrorism - merely saying that jumping to that conclusion with only preliminary data available isn't necessarily the best idea. We don't all have intelligence chiefs reporting to us. :-)
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:17:24 PM PDT
by
NJ_gent
(Conservatism begins at home. Security begins at the border. Please, someone, secure our borders.)
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To: eno_
To: Husker24
...a mid air collision...The sites of the two crashes are hundreds of miles from each other. This was no midair collision.
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:17:47 PM PDT
by
Wolfstar
(Dork, dufus, dolt, dummy, dope, dweeb, Democrat — ain't alliteration grand!)
To: Wolfstar
Within 4 minutes of each other... Bombs?
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:18:34 PM PDT
by
eabinga
To: eno_
Re:
Same airport. Night shift. One bomber, with access to luggage of both planes. That's what it'll be Agreed.
Within 4 minutes.
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:18:35 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(Vote Bush. He's Earned It.)
To: COEXERJ145
Another possibility could be fuel contamination. If both airliners were fueled at nearly the same time, it could easily have happened. No mayday, from either plane.
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:18:52 PM PDT
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
To: Wolfstar
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:19:10 PM PDT
by
bonfire
To: eabinga
Must have been two bombs.
To: MindBender26
"Bombs"
Sure sounds like it.
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:19:26 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: bonfire
I didn't hear them say shot down.
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To: MindBender26
No 7700. You and I and a dozen or so other people on FR know what that means ... :)
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posted on
08/24/2004 3:19:58 PM PDT
by
spodefly
(I have posted nothing but BTTT over 1000 times!!!)
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