Russian airliner crashes in Ukraine, 170 aboard
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A Russian airliner with 170 passengers and crew aboard crashed Tuesday in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian officials have said.
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Two Russian passenger planes crashed at nearly the same time Tuesday night, arousing suspicion of terror. By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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A passenger plane with 47 people aboard crashes in northern China, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports.
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"The plane was en route from Copenhagen to the western Lithuanian town Palanga when the crew noted the failure of the front and right landing gear"  VILNIUS  - A plane with 52 people aboard crash landed in Lithuania on Wednesday but no one was hurt, the airport said, in the second such accident this week involving a turboprop of the Scandinavian SAS airline.The plane ploughed through the ground with its fuselage and right wing and slid off the runway at Vilnius airport when the crew decided to put down there after noticing in flight that landing gear had failed.Following a crash of the same type of SAS plane on Sunday in Denmark, also due to landing gear problems, the airline said it was grounding the Canadian DHC-8-400 aircraft and cancelling 112 flights. Read more
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A Boeing 747-200 aircraft with seven crew members aboard crashed Thursday at Halifax International Airport. All seven aboard the jet, which is owned by MK Airlines Ltd.
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Investigators on Wednesday combed through the wreckage of a Russian passenger jet that crashed into a Ukrainian field during a severe thunderstorm, killing all 170 people aboard.
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BUCHALKI, Russia - A Russian airliner crashed and another apparently broke up in the air almost simultaneously after taking off from the same airport, officials said, killing all 89 people aboard and raising fears of a terrorist attack.    Authorities said rescuers found wreckage from a Tu-154 jet with at least 46 on board, about nine hours after it issued a distress signal and disappeared from radar screens over the Rostov region some 600 miles south of Moscow...
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TEHRAN -- A landing Iranian passenger plane skidded off the runway and raked its wing along the ground, sparking a fire that killed 29 of the 148 people on board yesterday in the latest deadly crash of a Russian-made aircraft.
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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.
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A Russian passenger plane veered off the runway on landing early Sunday, hit a concrete barrier and burst into flames, a government spokeswoman said. About 150 people were reported killed in the crash in the Siberian city of Irkutsk.
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A Russian cargo plane crashed in war-ravaged southern Sudan, killing all four people onboard, Russian media reported Wednesday.
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25 August 2004 -- Investigators are trying to determine why two Tupolev passenger jets crashed in southern Russia late yesterday, killing 89 people, after taking off from the same airport in Moscow.
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A TAM Airline passenger plane carrying as many as 170 people crashed Tuesday while attempting to land at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport, the airline said. There was no immediate word on survivors.
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At least two Israeli citizens were among 89 people killed in two passenger plane crashes in Russia late on Tuesday, an Israeli embassy official said on Wednesday.
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A plane carrying 21 people has crashed on takeoff from Armenia's capital, but there were no deaths reported, the head of the country's civil aviation authority said.
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Russian investigators found explosive residue on the wreckage of the second of two airliners that crashed minutes apart, a security spokesman said Saturday, adding to evidence that terrorists breached security at one of the country's most up-to-date airports.
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Details of the almost simultaneous crashes of two Russian airliners began to emerge yesterday - shocking a public that has become largely inured to terrorism and prompting fears of further attacks.