45 children dead in Russian Aircraft crash - terrorists involved?
Media Release
Aug. 22, 2006

A Russian commercial jet carrying 170 people -- many of them children -- crashed in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing all on board, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry reported.

The Tupolev Tu-154, belonging to Pulkovo Airlines, went down shortly after the pilot reported a fire on board and heavy turbulence, the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry said.

At least 30 bodies have been pulled from the wreckage, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Donetsk in a hard-to-reach area, the ministry said.

Forty-five passengers were children, Pulkovo Airlines said, and 10 victims were crew members.

Flight 612 was en route from the Black Sea resort town of Anapa to St. Petersburg.

"At 3:37 p.m. Moscow time (11:37 GMT) the plane sent an SOS signal, and at 3:39 it disappeared from radar screens," emergency ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova told Interfax.

Witnesses reported there was no explosion before the crash, she said.

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