Anyone hear about a Plane

[JR]

Originally posted by slavdogg@May 9 2003, 11:54 PM
JR, come one now you should know a thing or 2 about news comming out of RUssia. Cant trust anything they say, its like British tabloids.

The Ukrainian owners of the plane said no one was hurt and that life was just peachy. Congolese government said 7 people died. CNN, BBC immediately said "all 200 passengers" then later changed it to 160 or something. other news agencies said 33,000 feet... some said 7000 feet. i was just blown away at flipping around to see that everyone was saying something different.

but the Ukrainian Military was quick to clear it up... and that one took the cake:

"The Ukrainian Defence Ministry spokesman confirmed, quoting the general director of the Ukrainian Air Transportation Company, Andrei Kukin, that the Il-76 captain looked at the instruments in the cockpit 41st seconds after the aircraft took off from Kinshasa airport. The indicators on them showed that the plane had been unsealed. "Acting in full compliance with the flying instructions, the captain asked for permission to land and did that safely. Neither the people no the cargo or the plane were hurt or damaged," Khivrenko went on to say"

probably both embarassing and a disaster considering it was security officials for Lawrence Kabila and who knows who else. it probably was not even an accident.

here is itar-tass report.
http://www.itar-tass.ru/different/hotnews/...ish/299052.html