Two Russian passenger jets crash - CNN

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CNN) -- Two passenger planes have crashed in Russia Tuesday night, Russian officials and a news organization said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/24/russia.planecrash/index.html

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Where's Demo Tex or any of the other DU pilots?

What's the likelihood of a country having two commnercial passenger jets "crash" in one day?

[Bluebear]

2. Indeed.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Well, if there are two prominent Democrats on two different

planes in the US......

But that will never happen, because prominent Democrats can't even get ON the planes.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. they collided?

just a wild guess of course.

[PA Democrat]

8. No, article states 2 different locations

I wonder if Putin is reading a book about a goat?

[hang a left]

9. I don't think so.

The article indicates the planes came down in two seperate areas altogether.

CNN) -- Two passenger planes have crashed in Russia Tuesday night, Russian officials and a news organization said.

A passenger jet carrying 34 passengers and eight crew members in the Tula region crashed about 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Moscow, the ministry reported.

A second plane went down about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from Rostov-on-Don, in southern Russia, government-run news agency Ria Novosti reported.

A ministry spokeswoman said she could only confirm that the second plane had been lost to radar.

The first plane disappeared from radar at 10:56 p.m. (2:56 p.m. ET), a ministry spokeswoman said.

[smirkymonkey]

3. It didn't say anything about weather conditions, just

that they left from the same airport. Do they have any idea yet as to what caused the crash?

Anyway, it's very tragic. It must have been horrifying for the passengers. One of the worst ways to go in my opinion.

[DulceDecorum]

6. Let us who Russia invades

as a direct response to this.

[cmf]

7. What are the odds?

I don't normally jump to the terrorism conclusion, but what are the odds that two airliners independently crash on a single day?

Those poor people.

[Moderator]

10. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x773959