[Wolfstar]

Weather could be another possibility. There are all sort of things that could be possibilities. However, the odds of two airliners taking off from the same airport, then having accidents leading to crashes within a short time of each other several hundred miles apart are astronomical.

[NJ_gent]

"Weather could be another possibility. There are all sort of things that could be possibilities. However, the odds of two airliners taking off from the same airport, then having accidents leading to crashes within a short time of each other several hundred miles apart are astronomical."

I agree, but everyone's jumping to the conclusion that they have the answer when they don't even have any hard facts. Let's take a stroll through what we know so far - as per posts to this thread:

• There were timebombs slipped on both planes
  
• There were simultaneously-detonated shoe bombs
  
• Shoulder-fire missiles
  
• Chechen terrorists stormed the cockpits of both planes
  
• Simultaneous suicide bombers
  
• Both planes were hijacked, then ditched by the hijackers
  
  

In other words, no one knows what's going on yet, which is what I said originally. :-)

[ChadGore]

Re: Weather could be another possibility.

I'm no aviation expert, but here is the data for Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Weather > Russia > Rostov-on-Don

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20° 2:00 MSD Tue	Mostly Cloudy	High 27°
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Humidity:	94%
Wind:	W/11 km/h
Visibility:	9.99 km
Dewpoint:	19°
Barometer:	Unknown
Sunrise:	6:29
Sunset	20:16

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