Double air disaster hits Russia
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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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Investigators in Russia are looking into what caused two passenger planes to crash at almost the same time while flying from Moscow to cities in the southern part of the country.
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BUCHALKI, Russia : Two Russian passenger jets crashed almost simultaneously hundreds of miles apart after taking off from the same Moscow airport, leaving 89 people dead and raising new fears Wednesday of terrorism in the heart of Russia.
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A Russian passenger jet crashed during a thunderstorm just minutes after sending a distress signal on Tuesday, killing all 170 people on board, including dozens of children.
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IRKUTSK, Russia  - A Russian airliner crashed on   landing and burst into flames in Siberia on Sunday, killing at   least 122 people and injuring more than 50, emergency officials   said.
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One of two Russian airlines that crashed nearly simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act, officials said Friday, after finding traces of explosives in the plane&#39;s wreckage.
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Two Russian passenger jets crashed simultaneously in different places after taking off from the same Moscow airport, leaving 89 people dead and raising new fears of terrorism in the heart of Russia.
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Two southbound airliners fell from the sky almost simultaneously Tuesday night after taking off from Moscow&#39;s Domodedovo Airport, killing all 89 people aboard and raising fears of a terrorist attack.
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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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MOSCOW - 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.    The high explosive hexogen was found on the Tu-134 airliner that went down Tuesday south of Moscow, said Sergei Ignatchenko, spokesman for the Federal Security Service, or FSB, Russia's domestic security agency...
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MOSCOW - Officials investigating Tuesday&#39;s twin plane crashes in Russia said they were looking into the condition of the two doomed aircraft, the type of fuel used, weather conditions and pilot error.
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Russian officials declared Friday that a terrorist act downed one of the two planes in this week&#39;s near simultaneous crashes after the wreckage revealed traces of a high explosive used in past attacks blamed on Chechen separatists.
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Russia observed a day of mourning on Thursday for the 89 people killed when two Russian passenger jets crashed almost simultaneously hundreds of kilometres apart after taking off from the same Moscow airport, raising new fears of terrorist attacks.
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MOSCOW: Two Russian passenger planes crashed almost simultaneously killing all 89 people on board and airline officials said one of the pilots had sent a hijack alert, raising suspicion of a terrorist attack.
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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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MOSCOW Russian officials urged patience and calm Wednesday after two passenger jets crashed nearly simultaneously, and they emphasized that the causes for the crashes had not been found.
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Estimated times of key developments in the nearly simultaneous crashes of two Russian airliners.