Russian Plane Crashes

Why is the newspaper review not live?

Two separate plane crashes have been reported in Russia.
A plane with 62 people on board has crashed in the Tula region in the centre of the country.

The Itar-Tass news agency reports that the plane went down near the village of Buchalki, about 180km (110miles) south of the capital, Moscow.

Meanwhile air controllers said they had lost contact with a second plane with 44 passengers on board, near the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.

It is not yet known whether there were casualities in either incident.

Emergency officials were quoted by the Itar-Tass agency as saying they had reached the site of the first crash in the Tula region, but there was no news on what they found.

The plane had disappeared off radar screens on its way to the southern city of Volgograd late on Tuesday.

The second plane, said to be a Tu-154 flying from Moscow to the Black Sea resort of Sochi, vanished when it was expected to be 140 km (90 miles) from the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, the emergencies ministry said, according to the Interfax news agency.

Two passenger jets with nearly 100 people on board are believed to have crashed in two simultaneous incidents south of Moscow.

The cause of the two separate crashes are not known.



The extent of the injuries was not immediately available.

One of the planes, a Tu-134 with 34 passengers and eight crew on board, went down near the village of Buchalki, in the Tula region, 110 miles south of the capital Moscow, local news agencies said.

Witnesses saw an explosion on board the plane just before it crashed, Interfax news agency quoted local authorities as saying.

It had been en route to Russia's southern city of Volgograd when it disappeared off radar screens, according to the Itar-Tass news agency.

Just three minutes later, air traffic controllers lost contact with another passenger plane -- a four-engine TU-154 with 44 passengers and eight crew on board -- flying from Moscow to the Black Sea resort of Sochi, officials said.

Contact was lost as the plane was flying near the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.



Early reports had said 54 passengers had been on board.

SKY News will now be presenting the news paper review - which obviously cannot be prerecorded! Lets see if it gets mentioned in this portion??!?

There. Both pretty much the same, but not a dickie bird from ITN. Goodnight.

Oh Sky have eventually mentioned it at 1143. (Applause). So I'm baffled as to whether they were running a pre-record or were simply slow to react - almost an hour after ITV.

Well done ITV News for getting that new out first!

This always baffles me with the BBC. News 24 broke the news at 23.00, yet BBC World, which is in the same building as N24, only broke the news at 23.15, after their commercial break. Why the delay? Of the two channels, you would think World would break it first with it being world news.