Plane Crashes in Russia

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Has anyone heard about the 2 plane crashes in Russia that happened with-in minutes of each other?

What do you make of this?


:arrow: MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Russia's Interfax news agency has reported that a hijacking alarm was activated on one of two passenger jetliners that crashed over Russia in nearly simultaneous incidents.

As many as 94 people are feared killed.

Both planes took off from the same Moscow airport within minutes of each other late Tuesday and were bound for southwestern Russian cities.

The first plane disappeared from radar at 10:56 p.m. (0756 GMT), the news agency said.

The second plane, a Tupolev-154, dropped off the radar shortly afterwards.

That plane issued a signal indicating a hijacking or seizure before going missing, the Interfax news agency quoted an unidentified government source as saying on Wednesday.

CNN has no independent confirmation on whether the hijacking alarm was activated.

Russian officials have reportedly found the crash sites of both planes.

Witnesses reported seeing the first plane explode before it crashed, Interfax reported.

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****UPDATE****

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- One of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act, officials said, after finding traces of explosives in the plane's wreckage.

The planes, with 90 people aboard, went down within 20 minutes of each other Tuesday night. In Washington, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said there was "mounting evidence" that both crashes "were acts of terrorism."

Traces of the explosive hexogen were found in the remains of one of the planes, a Tu-154, security service spokesman Nikolai Zakharov said. No results from the investigation of the other crashed plane, a Tu-134, have been announced.

"According to preliminary information, at least one of the air crashes ... has been the result of a terrorist act," a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, Sergei Ignatchenko, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.