Russian inspectors begin surveillance flight over US
April 8th, 2012 - 7:33 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A group of Russian military observers begin Sunday a nine-day inspection mission in the skies of the US under the Open Skies Treaty.According to the ... Read more...
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Two Russian planes make emergency landing
July 29th, 2011 - 10:33 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 29 (IANS) A Russian plane with 99 people on board Friday made an emergency landing in Siberia while another aircraft with 301 passengers landed in Belarus capital Minsk ... Read more...
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Poland partly blames Russia for presidential plane crash
July 29th, 2011 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 29 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Poland Friday released a final report on the possible causes of the Tu-154 plane crash that killed then Polish president Lech Kaczynski last year. It ... Read more...
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Russia suspends airline after crash kills 47
July 14th, 2011 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia Thursday suspended the licence of a Moscow-based airline following a plane crash that killed 47 people last month.Aviation authorities suspended the licence of Rusair, ... Read more...
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Russian plane with 116 on board makes emergency landing
July 2nd, 2011 - 9:55 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 2 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian Tu-154 passenger jetliner with 116 passengers on board made an emergency landing Saturday following a technical snag in its engines.The safe landing was ... Read more...
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Polish first lady may visit plane crash site
January 31st, 2011 - 10:09 am ICT by IANS
Warsaw, Jan 31 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Polish first lady Anna Komorowska, wife of President Bronislaw Komorowski, is planning to go to the site of the Polish presidential plane crash in Smolensk, Russia, on ... Read more...
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Poland to reconstruct jet crash that killed president
January 23rd, 2011 - 11:53 am ICT by IANS
Warsaw, Jan 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Poland plans to reconstruct the crash that killed then Polish president Lech Kaczynski, a top official said.A Tu-154 plane that crashed near Smolensk, in western Russia, in ... Read more...
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Russian passenger plane in ‘miracle’ crash landing after total power failure
September 9th, 2010 - 2:18 am ICT by BNO News
MOSCOW (BNO NEWS) -- Russian pilots successfully made an emergency landing in Taiga forrest, saving the lives of 81 people, and causing minimum damage to the aircraft.The Tu-154 aircraft belonging to Alrosa ... Read more...
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Plane makes emergency landing in Russia
September 7th, 2010 - 8:42 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 7 (IANS) A passenger plane with 81 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing after all of its systems failed, a media report said Tuesday.
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Russia to prosecute Polish plane crash plunderers
June 8th, 2010 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian investigators Tuesday confirmed that charges had been brought against four servicemen accused of stealing bank cards from a top Polish official who died in the plane ... Read more...
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Transcripts of Polish President’s final minutes released
June 2nd, 2010 - 6:45 pm ICT by ANI
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President Lech Kaczynski in the ill-fated Tupolev Tu-154 whose crash ... Read more...
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Poland uncertain whether to reveal black box records
April 23rd, 2010 - 6:40 am ICT by IANS
Warsaw, April 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Polish investigators have not yet decided on whether to make public data from flight recorders of the Tu-154 plane, which crashed April 10 in western Russia, killing ... Read more...
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All bodies in Polish plane crash identified
April 22nd, 2010 - 12:10 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) All 96 bodies recovered from the wreckage of the Polish presidential plane, which crashed near Smolensk in Russia April 10, have been identified, an official has said.
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Polish president’s plane crash: Most bodies hard to identify
April 12th, 2010 - 3:31 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow/Warsaw, April 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Bodies of only 14 victims killed in the Polish president's plane crash Saturday could be easily identified by relatives, the Polish health minister said.
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Relatives of Polish air crash arrive in Russia
April 11th, 2010 - 12:29 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The relatives of people who died when a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed in western Russia have begun arriving in Moscow Saturday.
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Passenger plane crashes at Iranian airport, 46 hurt
January 24th, 2010 - 4:16 pm ICT by BNO News
TEHRAN (BNO NEWS) -- At least 46 people were injured on Sunday after a Taban Air passenger plane crashed at Mashhad International Airport in northeastern Iran, local media reported.State media cited officials ... Read more...
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Russian MS-21 jetliner to use Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney engines
August 19th, 2009 - 11:01 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 19 (RIA Novosti) Russia's Irkut aircraft building corporation has picked Britain's Rolls Royce and Canada's Pratt & Whitney to supply engines for its new MS-21 aircraft, the corporation's president said ... Read more...
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