Russia's 9/11?
Two Russian airliners crashed almost simultaneously a few hours ago:
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. The agency also reported that witnesses said they saw an explosion before the Tula region crash.
A Tu-134 airliner that apparently had 42 people aboard crashed in the 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, about 600 miles south of Moscow, but authorities had not found any wreckage, ITAR-Tass said.
NBC News Moscow bureau chief Tom Bonifield is reporting that there has not yet been confirmation of a second crash.
Earlier, however, the agency said emergency officials reported that the second plane crashed about three minutes after the first one.
If there's any nation on earth where two passenger jets could crash within minutes of each other, because of pilot error and/or mechanical problems, it's probably Russia. But I fear this was deliberate.
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