Russian Crashes Update 1 Tom Rudd FPAT Officer I Corps and Fort Lewis

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Russian Crashes Update 1Tom Rudd FP/AT OfficerI
Corps and Fort Lewis
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Update

• The Russian Federal Security Service said Aug. 27
  that traces of the explosive hexogen were
  detected in the wreckage of one of the two
  aircraft that crashed three days earlier. FSS
  spokesman Nikolai Zakharov said on Russian
  television that elements of the explosive were
  found in the debris of the Tu-154 jetliner.
  Meanwhile, a militant Islamist group claimed
  responsibility for downing the two commercial
  jets. The Islambouli Brigades claimed on a
  Jihadist Web site that five Mujahideen were on
  board each plane and said that their wills would
  be released soon.

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Hexogen

• RDX (Hexogen)RDX is also known as Hexogen,
  Cyclonite and Cyclotri-methylene Trinitramine.
  This explosive compound has an extremely low
  volatility. It is a white solid with a density of
  1.806 g/cc and nitrogen content of 37.84.
  Military grade RDX is offered in accordance with
  MIL-R-398C.
• Formula C3H6N6O6
• Elements Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen
• Notes Detonates on contact with mercury fulminate

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Background

• MOSCOW, Wednesday, Aug. 25 - Two Russian
  passenger jets on domestic flights crashed nearly
  simultaneously after departing from the same
  terminal in Moscow on Tuesday night, officials
  said. At least 88 people were presumed dead.
• While precise details surrounding the crashes
  were unclear, the Russian news service Interfax,
  citing an anonymous official source, reported
  that minutes after the first plane went down, the
  second jet issued a distress signal indicating it
  had been hijacked. Then it, too, disappeared from
  radar.

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TU 134

• SPECS
• First flight1963
• Production total725built
• Production ended 19..
• Series -, A, A-3, B-3
• Propulsion2 jet engines
• Max. nr of passengers86

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Crash 1

• Wreckage of the first plane, Volga AviaExpress
  Flight 1303, a Tupelov-134 en route to Volgograd,
  was found in the Tula region, about 100 miles
  south of Moscow, after disappearing from radar at
  about 1056 p.m.
• The plane was reported to have carried at least
  34 passengers and a crew of 8. Interfax reported
  that the plane was flown by the airline's general
  director, whom the company described as an
  experienced pilot. No survivors were found,
  according to initial reports.
• Witnesses near the town of Kimovsk, in the Tula
  region, told authorities that the plane exploded
  before it fell from the sky, according to
  Interfax, which also reported that a portion of
  the aircraft's tail and fuselage had been
  discovered.

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TU 154

• SPECS
• First flight1968
• Production total923built
• Production ended 19..
• Series -, A, B, B-1, B-2, M
• Propulsion3 jet engines
• Max. nr of passengers180

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2d Crash

• The second aircraft, Sibir Airlines Flight 1047,
  a Tupolev-154 bound for Sochi, disappeared from
  radar over the Rostov-on-Don region, about 500
  miles south of Moscow near Russia's border with
  Ukraine, minutes after the first jet crashed. A
  ground fire was reported in the region near the
  village of Zelenovka in the predawn darkness on
  Wednesday.
• The Sibir Airlines flight was initially reported
  to have carried 38 passengers and 8 crew members,
  although a later report said the plane may have
  carried 6 more passengers, for a total of 52
  people on board.
• "Flight 1047 disappeared from the radar of air
  traffic controllers at around 2300,"

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911 similarities

• During the 9/11 attacks all three aircraft
  carried less than capacity loads
• In the Russian incidents, both Aircraft carried
  less that a full passenger load
• Crash 1 Capacity 86
• Headcount 34 PAX 8 Crew
• Crash 2 Capacity 180
• Headcount 44 PAX 8 Crew

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POC

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