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...Although the cause of the crash remains to be determined, U.S. officials have reportedly suggested that the Tupolev TU-154 that went down off Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula may have been hit by a surface-to-air missile accidentally fired by a Ukrainian air defense battery during a military training exercise being held nearby...
...Although the airliner in question has a poor safety record - some 28 of 923 Tupolev 154s produced since 1968 have crashed - Russian State Civil Aviation Service chief Alexander Neradko rules out any technical malfunction, saying this incident was unprecedented in its suddenness. In all previous crashes, the crew had been able to inform air controllers of trouble aboard. The Tupolev in question was built in 1991, and had undergone a total overhaul in 1999. Yevgeni Garov, its captain, is said to have been an experienced pilot...
...exploded like a Molotov cocktail. Examiners later determined that the aircraft had been loaded with two poorly secured automobiles stuffed with cans of gasoline, and that many of the passengers were also clutching jugs of gasoline as carry-on luggage. In Irkutsk this January, the pilot of a Tupolev-154 ignored a warning from a flight engineer that one of the engines was "dangerous." One hour later, the aircraft caught fire in midair and crashed, killing all 120 people on board...
...just days left before the June 12 election, one of Yeltsin's few advantages has been his position as chairman of the Russian parliament. The post permits him to set government policy and issue decrees. But it has also enabled him to order a VIP version of an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 jet and stage a 12-city swing through north and central Russia...
Life aboard Yeltsin's campaign plane has its perks. The Tupolev jet is several cuts above most Aeroflot planes, with a clean interior and flight attendants who actually attend. Dinner on the flight to Perm included caviar on eggs, fresh salads, half a chicken and unlimited Pepsi, tea and coffee. Yeltsin's bodyguards, Makarov pistols dangling in shoulder holsters, bantered with officials and reporters in the aisles. The Soviet reporters passed around the vodka and caught up on sleep. The phone system is so bad that Russian reporters working domestically don't bother to write on laptop computers; they...