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Two passenger aircraft have crashed within minutes of each other in Russia and a bomb has exploded on a street in Moscow. No connection between the incidents, apart from timing and the fact that both flights originated in Moscow, is certain. Meanwhile, a bomb injured four when it detonated at a Moscow bus stop. The device had a force of between 100-200 grams of TNT, according to a report on Itar-Tass Moscow Times reports that the bomb was planted near the base of a lamp post not far from a bus stop close to house 30 on Kashirskoye Highway. "First...

Russia on alert after double jet crash Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow and Colin Blackstock Wednesday August 25, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, last night ordered the FSB security services to begin an investigation after one passenger plane with 42 people on board crashed and another aircraft carrying 52 went missing within minutes of each other after taking off from Moscow. The involvement of the FSB and an order for airport security to be tightened suggested the possibility that the incidents could have been caused by terrorism. The emergencies ministry confirmed that one plane had crashed...

MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian airliner crashed south of Moscow, and another passenger jet went missing about the same time after both took off from Moscow, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Wednesday. There was no word on survivors. Witnesses reported seeing an explosion before the plane crashed, and authorities were not ruling out terrorism, the agency said.A Tu-134 airliner that apparently had 42 people aboard crashed in the Tula region, 125 miles south of Moscow, at about 10:56 p.m. Tuesday, ITAR-Tass reported, citing the Emergency Situations Ministry.A Tu-154 with 44 people aboard went missing about the same time near Rostov-on-Don,...

Per Foxnews Alert. Into the red sea. 60 people aboard the first one.

I heard on the Schnitt Show WFLA & WIOD that according to TAS one Russian plane has crashed and second cannot be contacted. Can anyone more resourceful than I find more information???