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"One Russian Jet Crashes; Another Breaks Apart in Air"
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BUCHALKI, Russia — A Russian airliner crashed and another apparently broke up in the air almost simultaneously after they took off from the same Moscow airport Tuesday night, officials said, raising fears of terrorism and leaving little hope that any of at least 89 people on board could have survived.
Authorities said rescuers found wreckage from a Tu-154 jet (search), which was carrying at least 46 people, about nine hours after it issued a distress signal indicating an attack and disappeared from radar screens over the Rostov region (search) some 600 miles south of Moscow.
At about the same time that plane disappeared, a Tu-134 airliner carrying 43 people crashed in the Tula region (search), about 125 miles south of Moscow, officials said. The Emergency Situations Ministry later said that everybody on board the Tu-134 was killed."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40142
"Terror fears over simultaneous plane losses"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "evertheless, many explosions in recent years, blamed primarily on Chechen separatist rebels, have killed hundreds of people, according to NBC.
The aircraft accidents occurred shortly after a bomb exploded at a Moscow bus stop, injuring four. And the Moscow Times reported a fire broke out yesterday morning on a bus in the eastern Moscow, killing all five passengers and seriously injuring the driver."