A Look at Major Plane Crashes in Russia
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Here are some of the more serious passenger plane crashes involving the airlines serving Russia and the former Soviet Union.
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Nearly 150 people, including many children, are feared dead after a Russian airliner crashes on landing.
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BUCHALKI, Russia - 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 opened a criminal investigation as they looked into other causes like bad fuel, equipment malfunction and human error...
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A corporate jet carrying only its crew crashed at a Moscow airport on Tuesday while taking off during a snowstorm, officials said. All three crew members on board survived.
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MOSCOW - Russian officials said Friday they detected traces of a high explosive in the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners, branding it the work of terrorists, while an Islamic group claimed its suicide attackers brought down both planes because of the war in Chechnya.    At least one crash was "the result of a terrorist act," a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, Sergei Ignatchenko, told the ITAR-Tass news agency...
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A Russian official said Sunday that the two airliners that crashed almost simultaneously Tuesday had fallen apart in midair, Interfax news agency reported.
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The Russian government abruptly shifted gears Friday and concluded that at least one of the two planes that fell out of the sky almost simultaneously this week was blown up
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Russia is observing a day of mourning for the 89 people killed in two plane crashes that occurred within minutes of one another late on 24 August.
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Charred bodies, mangled fuselage and an airplane seat with a woman and child still strapped inside were among the gruesome discoveries rescue workers and witnesses found Wednesday in wreckage strewn across the sites of two separate plane crashes in Russia.
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Investigators picked through the scattered wreckage today of two Russian passenger jets that crashed nearly simultaneously Tuesday night after leaving Moscow, and reported
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The Russian government abruptly shifted gears yesterday and concluded that at least one of the two planes that fell out of the sky almost simultaneously this week exploded in a terrorist bombing.
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Russian investigators labored yesterday to determine whether terrorism caused the near-simultaneous crashes of two jetliners, killing all 89 people aboard and spreading
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MOSCOW (BBC)-- Two Russian airliners carrying 90 passengers and crew crashed within minutes of each other after flying out of the same Moscow airport.
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All nine people aboard a Russian plane that went missing on Thursday have been killed, a Russian radio station reported on Friday.
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BUCHALKI, Russia - Russian emergency workers searched heaps of twisted metal and tall grass Wednesday for clues about what caused two airliners to plunge to earth within minutes of each other, killing all 89 people aboard. Officials said one jet sent a hijack distress signal, raising fears terrorists had struck...
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The two planes that crashed with the loss of 90 lives in Russia last week were both brought down by explosions in twin terrorist attacks, Russian officials said.
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Authorities were investigating the cause of the crash of two passenger jets, which went down late Tuesday night within minutes of each other in different parts of Russia after taking off from a Moscow airport with a total of 89 people on board. No survivors were found.