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Air disaster in Russia (5): hijacking hypothesis has not been confirmed yet

Moscow, Russia - Transport Minister would anyway consider the attempt hypothesis as the most plausible one

Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin was appointed as President of Investigation Commission regarding the double air accident occurred in Russia last week, and the first results revealed to press sources still appear limited, when considering the damages suffered by the black boxes of the two airplanes (see for details AVIONEWS). According to Minister, the difficulties stemmed from such event still...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 102392
Rome, Italy, 08/30/2004 17:01
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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