Some 76 persons including 51 Israelis were killed in a Russian plane explosion
Israel, Local, 10/5/2001

Some 76 persons including 51 persons were killed yesterday when an explosion took place in passengers plane TU 154 which fell in the Black Sea.

According to the spokeswoman for the Russian emergency ministry, the plane was in a flight from Tel Aviv to the Russian Novorsik port and the plane fell, 190 Km away from the said port and this resulted in killing all passengers of the plane besides its ten- member crew.

The Russian Inter-fax news agency quoted one of an Armenia air company's pilots as saying that a strong explosion took place in the plane before it fell.

The Israeli aviation authorities announced that the plane did not ask for help before it fell, while the Israeli TV did not rule out that plane was blown off as a result of an attack.

Meantime, Ukraine's defense minister officially denied the plane to have been downed by an Ukraine missiles as stated earlier by certain news reports.

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