But wouldn't fuel contamination have affected more than two planes?
Although it is possible it is not terrorism, I would bet that it is terror related.
Look at a map of Europe. Those planes can go 2000-2400 miles - that puts most of Europe within range of Moscow.
My guess is the Russian military realized what was going on and took the planes down. That's what the US would do if a 9-11 type scenario started to unfold here again - at least that's what I THINK they would do.
Checking the Arabic message boards now to see what they are saying about it.
By the way, there was a bus stop bombing this morning in Moscow as well.
Bottom of the tank of an old, rusty tanker truck??
Don't get me wrong. We know what happened here. I was just trying to think of a any other reason that two planes could go in simultaneously.