who knows but made me go hmmmm a bit.
Two airliners crash in Russia
MOSCOW (AFP) - One Russian airliner has crashed in southern Russia and another in the centre of the country, news agencies reported.
A Tu-134 aircraft with 34 passengers and eight crew on board was en route to Russia's southern city of Volgograd when it disappeared off radar screens late Tuesday, emergency officials said as quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency.
It was later found near the village of Buchalki in Tula region some 180 kilometers (108 miles) south of Moscow, officials said. The fate of passengers and crew was unclear.
In a separate case, a Tu-154 airplane with 44 people on board crashed near the southern city of Rostov-on-Don while on the way to the Black Sea resort of Sochi, officials said.
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