TWO Russian Airliners Have Crashed.

[Braak]

Can someone get ame a link to that Gertz article? If that's true...with the RNC here next week. Oh man, fellow NYC freepers, lock and load. Things are about to get nasty I think...What are they saying on Threat Matrix?

[LikeLight]

And remember how this same type of scenario came up with the Flash Air crash near where Tony Blair was staying this past January, on the Red Sea . . . very similar pattern . . .

[CobaltBlue]

>>Hope TSA is running a tight ship.

Yeah, right. I have had my eyes opened recently. I am a lawyer who occasionally handles divorces, have one now with TSA husband and wife, and alleged boyfriend.

The things I learn make my hair curl.

[ridesthemiles]

If that map is configured for 212 miles from London to Paris, then it is far more than 400 miles from Moscow to Athens, just using my eye. If I get a ruler out, I think 1400+ miles would be more likely. Help me here!!

[Joe Hadenuf]

Or any one of 300 other explainations.

But only one that's credible and makes sense.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Look for fare rates to drop dramatically tomorrow.

[July 4th]

Here is the article, from August 10: A major assassination in the works to kick off the next round of Al Qaeda.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20040811/ts_nm/security_qaeda_report_dc

[El Gato]

"In flight emergency IFF code. Also no 7500, the Hijack code?"

No Mayday calls from what I've heard.

The story from this thread indicates that a Hijack "sqawk" *was* received from one of the aircraft.

[MarMema]

May God bless the souls of those who died.

May Putin rub out the chechens who were behind all this in their outhouses.

Nothing posted yet anywhere on Kavkaz, which is very disturbing to me. Could not get Lenta.ru to come up for pics either.

[MarMema]

There was a hijacking alert given just before one plane crashed, according to one Russian news source.

[MarMema]

Oh sorry, preaching to the choir by accident...

[El Gato]

DRATS! And, I'm not one of them. Any clues?!

from #759 7700 is "Inflight Emergency", 7500 is "Hijack". Apparently a 7500 was received from one aircraft.

[rdl6989]

This is my very first post. I hope it's in the right place. Fox news is reporting that the second plane sent a hijacking alarm before it broke up in mid-air. I wonder if it was a bomb that caused it to break up or if terrorists were at the controls and flew faster than the maximum safe speed, putting too much stress on the aircraft. One of the planes was heading to the city where Russian President Vladimir Putin is vacationing.

[El Gato]

Thanks, CG...these were Aeroflot? If so, not even the Russians have confidence in flying; trains more popular.

One was Aeroflot, the other a regional airline (usually even worse, my wife's sister-in-law was once a stewardess on one of those Soviet/Kirghiz regional airlines, she also learned how to strip and reassemble a Kalishnikov... blindfolded. Not much trouble with recaltent passengers with Stews like that. :) )

[asgardshill]

Nothing posted yet anywhere on Kavkaz, which is very disturbing to me.

Yes, that is odd. Just some touristy-type stuff on the Caucasus featured now. (And my meager ability to translate Cyrillic is just about burned out for tonight).

[dr_lew]

Planes crash occasionally. The odds of them crashing, accidently & simultaneously are probably close to infinity.

There are about 30 million seconds in a year and 300 seconds in five minutes, so that makes 100,000 five minute intervals in a year.

If an event occurs at random with a probability per five minute interval of 1/100,000 (i.e. once a year on average ) then two of these events may be expected to occur in the same five minute interval about once every 100,000 years.

[El Gato]

It looks like the Black Sea is about 100 miles south of Moscow from ye old map More like 800 kilometer or about 480 miles.

[Embedded Freeper]

Thanks for the lecture. If you and others that jump on me or anyone else that doubts your opinions and assume that I have made a decision in my mind of what happened so you can sound scholarly should take a breath and don't be so opinionated.
Thanks.

[El Gato]

And they were headed south, towards Greece.

Yea, but there's not much to fly to North of Moscow. West is St. Petersburg, east are various Siberian places. South is the Black Sea, where many Russians go for holiday, just as Americans flock to Florida and the Gulf Coast (although usually not in July/August :) ).

[Embedded Freeper]

Shhhh, Joe.
You are just asking for a lecture. ;>)