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Igor Levitin confirms: the two Russian Tupolev pulled down for an attack

Moscow, Russia - The governmental commission for inquiry has definitively established it

The Russian Minister for the Transports, Igor Levitin, illustrating today in conference-prints turns out of the governmental commission of inquiry jobs, has definitively ended the contrasting news rebound regarding the cause of the two Tupolev fall, happened nearly at the same time the last August 24 (see news AVIONEWS). The disasters that have provoked about 90 casualties between passengers and crews,...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 103400
Rome, Italy, 09/15/2004 17:41
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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