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| 2004/8/24 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/911] UID:33124 Activity:nil 68%like:33116 |
8/24 Two Russian passenger jets, taking off from same Moscow airport,
crash within five minutes of each other. One sent out a hijacking
signal before going down. 90+ feared dead.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/24/russia.planecrash/index.html
\_ It's a Bush dirty trick! Rove secretly bribed the pilots to
crash the planes so they can run ads to discredit Kerry.
\_ Nah, the only dirty trick we're expecting is capturing Osama
before the election, and other fiddling with the color-coded
alert system. (I think all major points of interest will go
Orange 2-4 weeks before the election).
\_ You think they have bin Laden in prison some where and will
trot him out in late October? And no one has leaked this?
\_ nah are you some right-wing weenie? guess again.
\_ If terrorism is involved, I would say its highly likely to be
Chechen rebels. They have committed plenty of terrorist acts
before. Also, this is a RUSSIAN airline we are talking about, so
you can't rule out massive equipment failure.
\_ Don't forget the pilots, drinking vodka and letting kids take
over the plane!
\_ kids?
\_ Da Comrade, one for me, one for plane. |
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| www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/24/russia.planecrash/index.html Search-and-rescue teams are investigating whether a large fire near the southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don is the second missing plane's crash site. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered security services to launch an immediate investigation, Russian news agencies reported early Wednesday. The flights took off from Moscow within minutes of each other Tuesday night and were bound for cities in southern Russia. A ministry spokeswoman said the wreckage of one jet was found ablaze in the Tula region, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Moscow. Search-and-rescue teams were at the site, searching for possible survivors, but the ministry said none of the 34 passengers and eight-member crew are believed to have survived. Witnesses reported seeing the plane explode before it crashed, the Russian news agency Interfax reported. And the government-run news agency Ria Novosti reported that the plane's wreckage was in two separate locations. The second plane, carrying 44 passengers and eight crew members, was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Rostov-on-Don when it dropped off radar screens, Ria Novosti reported. The first plane disappeared from radar at 10:56 pm (2:56 pm ET), the news agency said. The Tupolev-134 had taken off from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport and was en route to Volgograd, in southern Russia. The second plane, a Tupolev-154, disappeared from radar at 10:59 pm (2:59 pm ET) after having taken off from the same airport en route to Sochi, a tourist resort on the Black Sea in southern Russia, the ministry spokeswoman reported. Search-and-rescue teams reported early Wednesday that they had spotted a large fire burning near the plane's last reported position, and believe the fire could be the crash site. The Tupolev-154 is a standard medium-range airliner on domestic flights in Russia, according to aviation websites. |