October 4, 2001 over the Black Sea

EvilAztec · Apr 1, 2014

October 4, 2001 over the Black Sea

Russian passenger jet crashes after explosion

A passenger jet flying from Israel to Siberia exploded in midair today before crashing into the Black sea coast off Russia, killing at least 76 people on board, officials said.
Senior US military sources in Washington said the crash may have been caused by a surface-to-air missile that was fired during a military training exercise in Ukraine, according to the Associated Press.
However, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said: "It is possible that it is the result of a terrorist act".
Colonel Vyacheslav Sedov, of the Russian defence ministry, said he had heard reports about a stray missile hitting the plane. "We are checking this information," he said.
White House officials quickly contacted their counterparts in Moscow in an attempt to determine whether there was a connection between the explosion and the September 11 terrorist attacks or US plans to retaliate.
A spokesman for the airline, Sibir Airlines, said there had been 64 passengers and 12 crew members on board. All the passengers were Israelis, said Sergei Moslayov, a duty officer at Russia's emergency situations ministry.
Russia's deputy transport minister, Karl Ruppel, said the crew of an Armenian airliner in the area had informed Russian air traffic controllers that they had seen the plane explode.
Armenian pilot Garik Ovanisian said his aircraft was at 6,300 metres (20,790ft) above the Black sea when the plane above his exploded.
He said: "I saw the explosion on the plane, which was above me at an altitude of 11,000 metres (36,300ft).
"The plane fell into the sea, and there was another explosion in the sea. After that I saw a big white spot on the sea and I had the impression that oil was burning."
The plane, a Tupolev-154, was flying to the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. It went down in pieces 180 kilometres (114 miles) off the Russian coastal city of Adler, a Russian government spokesman said.
Israel suspended takeoffs of foreign flights from its main airport, the Ben Gurion international airport, near Tel Aviv, from where the Russian chartered flight had originated.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/04/russia.israel

A Ukrainian official today admitted that his country's military may have mistakenly shot down a Russian commercial airliner over the Black sea last week, killing all 78 people on board.
The announcement by Yevhen Marchuk, the head of the Ukrainian security council and a member of the commission investigating the tragedy, marks the first time that the country has conceded it may be responsible.
"The reason for the crash could be an unintentional hit by an S-200 missile during the Ukrainian air defence exercises," Mr Marchuk told a press conference today, adding that investigators would make their final conclusions after further, complex research.
The Russian chief of the investigative commission, Vladimir Rushailo, said today that the aircraft had been hit by an anti-aircraft missile, the Interfax news agency reported.
Mr Rushailo said: "The Tu-154 flying from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk crashed because it was hit by the warhead of an anti-aircraft missile." He added that investigators were continuing to examine fragments of the downed plane.
The Russian Tu-154 airliner crashed October 4 off the Black Sea coast, near the Russian city of Sochi, after an explosion on board. All 78 crew and passengers, most of them recent Russian immigrants to Israel, were killed.
Hours after the crash, US officials said that the tragedy had been caused by an S-200 missile fired mistakenly by Ukrainian forces during military exercises on the Crimean peninsula, which juts into the Black sea.
Pressure has been mounting on Ukraine's leadership to take responsibility for the crash. Ukrainian military officials have heatedly denied they were at fault, but the Ukrainian president, Leonid Kuchma, said yesterday that the defence minister, Oleksandr Kuzmuk, had submitted his resignation immediately after the tragedy. The resignation was rejected.
Mr Kuchma today ordered the creation of a Ukrainian commission to look into the causes of the tragedy, together with Russia.
Russian investigators had initially focused on the possibility of a terrorist attack, but officials signalled over the weekend that they were considering the Ukrainian missile theory ever more likely.
On Tuesday, a top investigator, former Soviet air force chief Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, said experts had found fragments resembling the missile's payload at the Black sea crash site.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/12/russia.israel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812

That's why i am not wonder why revolution of idiots happened in Ukraine.

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