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Two Russian Passengers Crashed, No signs of Terrorism.

Posted 8-29-2004 at 03:33 AM

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The two planes planes, a Tu-134 of Volga-Avia Express and a Tu-154 of Siberian Airlines crashed within minutes of each other Tuesday night after taking off from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, killing all 89 passengers onboard the two planes. The two crashes brought on worries of terrorist attacks and Siberian Airlines has claimed the Tu-154 had activated a hijack alert. The black boxes from the planes are being transported to Moscow where it will be opened to determine the truth behind these two crashes.

Click here for a Map of the intended route of the two planes.

These crashes add another mark to the already tainted reputation of Russian airliners. The following link shows a list of major crashes of Russian airlines.
Russian major air disasters.

Source: CNN.com

RIP to all victims of the crash.

Yeah, I saw that this morning as I was getting ready for school. Very unfortunate event.

May they RIP.

Yes indeed, I think that was just very bad coincidence(spelling..) Probably bad weather?

Well the officials aren't sure yet. Might have been mechanical failure, but they found out that both black boxes have been shut off just prior to the crash.

Hexogen was found on the planes. They are suspecting it was two Chechen women who blew up the planes.