and where are you registered michaelnewpoort ?
duh.
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> On 14 Sep, 16:06, "tile" wrote:
>> Frog in a bucket wrote:
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>> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7614951.stm
>>
>> > A passenger plane that crashed on the outskirts of a Russian city,
>> > killing all 88 people on board, probably had a technical failure,
>> > officials say.
>>
>> > The Boeing-737-500, belonging to a branch of the national airline
>> > Aeroflot, was on a flight from Moscow to Perm, near the Ural
>> > mountains.
>>
>> > Twenty-one foreign passengers were on board.
>>
>> > Radio contact with the plane was lost as it was landing amid low cloud
>> > cover, said the airline.
>>
>> > "The Boeing-737 carried 82 passengers on board, including seven
>> > children, and six crew," Aeroflot said in a statement.
>>
>> > 'Completely destroyed'
>>
>> > "As the plane was coming in for landing, it lost communication at the
>> > height of 1,100 metres and air controllers lost its blip. The airplane
>> > was found within Perm's city limits completely destroyed and on fire."
>>
>> > My neighbours told me that it was burning in the air, it looked like a
>> > comet
>>
>> > City of Perm resident
>>
>> > The minister for security in the region said the plane was on fire
>> > before it crashed.
>>
>> > "The fire broke at an altitude of 1000 metres," he said.
>>
>> > Contact with the plane was lost at 0321 Moscow time on Sunday (0021
>> > BST), said the airline.
>>
>> > The flight crashed on the city outskirts, just a few hundred metres
>> > from residential buildings, but no one was hurt on the ground.
>>
>> > Part of the Trans-Siberian railway was shut down as a result of damage
>> > to the main east-west train track.
>>
>> > The blaze raged for two hours before firefighters were able to put it
>> > out.
>>
>> > The 21 foreigners killed were listed as nine people from Azerbaijan,
>> > five from Ukraine and one person each from France, Switzerland,
>> > Latvia, the United States, Germany, Turkey and Italy, Aeroflot said.
>>
>> > The most likely cause of the crash was technical failure, Vladimir
>> > Markin, a spokesman for the federal prosecutors' Investigative
>> > Committee, told Russian television.
>>
>> > Investigators have recovered two black box recorders from the crash
>> > site. There was no immediate suggestion of an attack or sabotage.
>>
>> > Scorched earth
>>
>> > Correspondents say the tragedy will be a setback for Russian aviation,
>> > which has been trying to shake off a chequered safety record.
>>
>> > Aeroflot deputy director Lev Koshlyakov said no problem was reported
>> > with the 15-year-old jet when it was last inspected at the beginning
>> > of 2008.
>>
>> > map
>>
>> > A woman in Perm told Vesti-24 TV how she was thrown out of bed by the
>> > force of the blast when the plane crashed.
>>
>> > She said: "My daughter ran in from the next room crying: 'What
>> > happened? Has a war begun or what?'
>>
>> > "My neighbours, other witnesses, told me that it was burning in the
>> > air, it looked like a comet."
>>
>> > Pavel Shevchenko, 36, who lives in Perm near the crash site, told AP
>> > news agency that a neighbour saw the plane hitting the ground sharply
>> > - at a 30 or 40 degree angle.
>>
>> > The aircraft belonged to Aeroflot-Nord - Aeroflot's regional airline.
>>
>> > Sunday's accident was the deadliest involving a Russian airliner since
>> > 170 people died in August 2006 when a Tupolev-154 bound for St
>> > Petersburg crashed in Ukraine.
>>
>> apparently the plane belonged to an Irish Leasing company and was on
>> lease
>> till 2013
>
> ...registered in Bermuda...
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