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Russia investigates twin plane crashes
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-08-26 07:00


Russia's Emergencies Ministry personnel search through the debris of a Tupolev Tu-134 plane for victims at the plane crash site near Tula, some 150 km (93 miles) from Moscow, August 25, 2004. Volga-Aviaexpress, a small regional carrier which owned the Tu-134, said the crew did not report any problems onboard before the plane collapsed with 43 passengers and crew late Tuesday evening. Two Russian passenger planes crashed almost simultaneously late on Tuesday, killing all 89 people on board. The planes took off from the same Moscow airport and disappeared from air traffic controllers' radar screens within minutes of each other late on Tuesday. [Reuters]

Russia's Emergencies Ministry personnel search through the debris of a Tupolev Tu-134 plane for victims at the plane crash site near Tula, some 150 km (93 miles) from Moscow, August 25, 2004. [Reuters]


Unidentified relatives of plane crash victims wait for the information at Domodedovo airport outside Moscow, August 25, 2004. Two Russian passenger planes crashed almost simultaneously late on Tuesday, killing all 89 people on board. The planes took off from the same Moscow airport and disappeared from air traffic controllers' radar screens within minutes of each other late on Tuesday. [Reuters]


Russian authorities carry the black box found amongst the wreckage of russian Tupolev Tu-134 plane near Tula, some 150 km (93 miles) from Moscow, August 25, 2004. Volga-Aviaexpress, a small regional carrier which owned the Tu-134, said the crew did not report any problems on board before the plane collapsed with 43 passengers and crew late Tuesday evening. [Reuters]

Russian Emergencies Ministry servicemen inspect the wreckage of a Russian Tupolev Tu-134 plane near Tula, some 150 kilometres from Moscow. All 44 people on the plane were killed, together with those on another plane which almost crashed at the same time. [Reuters]

Russian investigators labored Wednesday to determine whether terrorism caused the near-simultaneous crashes of two jetliners, killing all 89 people aboard and spreading anxieties about a possible bloody escalation of the Chechen conflict.

Officials stressed that no evidence of a terrorist attack had yet been found among charred wreckage and said they were looking at other possibilities like bad fuel, equipment malfunction and human error. The planes' data recorders were recovered, but experts were only just starting to retrieve information from them.

The planes plunged just days before a Kremlin-called presidential election in Chechnya, whose rebels have staged suicide bombings and other attacks across Russia in recent years, including the 2002 seizure of hundreds of hostages at a Moscow theater.

Russian authorities had expressed concern the separatists might stage new attacks before the Sunday vote, but there was no rush to tie the crashes to Chechnya — a determination that would underline the government's failure to quell the decade-old insurgency.

"Several versions are being examined, including a terrorist attack, and other possibilities — the human and technical factor," Russia's top prosecutor, Vladimir Ustinov, told Russian President Vladimir Putin during a televised meeting about the Tuesday night crashes.

Putin, who expressed sympathy for the families of the dead, didn't publicly address the terror question. After designating Thursday as a national day of mourning, he ordered that the Federal Security Service investigate the crashes and said he wanted "unbiased and reliable information" from the probe. The service is a successor agency to the KGB.

While officials spoke cautiously on the terrorism issue, Russian police said security was being tightened at airports and other transport hubs and public places.

In Washington, U.S. officials said they had no information on the disaster, but said American agencies were ready to provide help if asked.

"Our understanding is, there is no cause that has been ruled in or no cause that has been ruled out," said U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli.

Outside experts expressed skepticism that anything but violence could be behind two planes crashing at almost the same time hundreds of miles apart.

"That's pretty far out there on the chance bar," said Bob Francis, former vice chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.

Rafi Ron, former head of security at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport and now a security consultant in Washington, said he was convinced it was terrorism. "The timing indicates that this is probably a coordinated attack," he said.

He also noted reports that one of the jetliners activated an emergency signal shortly before disappearing from radar screens, which could indicate a hijacking. "In my assumption, that must have been the result of a terrorist on board," Ron said.

Oleg Yermolov, deputy director of Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, said it was impossible to judge what was behind the signal, which he said is used merely to indicate "a dangerous situation onboard," including a catastrophic mechanical problem. Officials also said the crew of the other plane gave no indication anything was wrong, although people on the ground reported hearing a series of explosions.

Appearing on television, FSB spokesman Sergei Ignatchenko said investigators picking through the wreckage scattered in tall grass had so far not found any evidence of a terrorist attack.

Officials said the planes' flight data recorders had been found in satisfactory condition and were taken to Moscow, where experts began examining their contents.

The planes — a Sibir airlines Tu-154 with 46 people aboard and a Tu-134 with 43 passengers and crew belonging to tiny Volga-Aviaexpress airline — went down around 11 p.m. Tuesday. The Tu-134 was headed to the southern city of Volgograd and the other plane to the Black Sea resort of Sochi, where Putin had been vacationing.

Both planes had taken off about 40 minutes apart from the single terminal at Moscow's newly renovated Domodedovo airport, which is about 14 miles outside of Moscow.

The wreckage of the Tu-134 was scattered near the village of Gluboky about 125 miles south of Moscow. The plane lay upside-down in a large hay field, its tail severed from the fuselage.

The larger Tu-154 came down close to Buchalki, a village near the city of Rostov-on-Don, about 600 miles south of the capital.

Domodedovo airport said in a statement that both planes "went through the standard procedure of preparation for flight" and that "the procedures were carried out properly."

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