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The day after two Tupolev's, a Tu154 and a Tu134 were (allegedly) blown out of the air I found myself aboard a Yak 40 bound for Nizhny Novgorod. Two things struck me at the time; firstly nobody should ever have to pay money to get on to a Yak. Secondly that at the time I got on the plane I believed that the crashes had been caused by negligence or poor fuel. With a little rational thought it would have been clear that neither poor fuel nor negligence makes planes disappear from the radar screen. Nonetheless, my primary thought was negligence.
The FSB (successor to the KGB) was also hoping that it was negligence as they have told Putin that Chechen terrorism is under control.
Scanning the pages of the Komsomolskaya Pravda, a third rate producer of newsprint that does not justify the title newspaper, there was a picture of a sniffer dog at Domodeydovo Airport (the take off point for the two aircraft) with the caption "Sniffer dogs are better because they cannot be bought."
Entirely disabused of the negligence excuse, it struck me that the Chechen / fundamentalists will always be able to strike wherever and whenever they like because someone in uniform will always sell them a way around whatever security has been put in place to stop the terrorists - and will do so without any conscience.
The day after two Tupolev's, a Tu154 and a Tu134 were (allegedly) blown out of the air I found myself aboard a Yak 40 bound for Nizhny Novgorod. Two things struck me at the time; firstly nobody should ever have to pay money to get on to a Yak. Secondly that at the time I got on the plane I believed that the crashes had been caused by negligence or poor fuel. With a little rational thought it would have been clear that neither poor fuel nor negligence makes planes disappear from the radar screen. Nonetheless, my primary thought was negligence.
The FSB (successor to the KGB) was also hoping that it was negligence as they have told Putin that Chechen terrorism is under control.
Scanning the pages of the Komsomolskaya Pravda, a third rate producer of newsprint that does not justify the title newspaper, there was a picture of a sniffer dog at Domodeydovo Airport (the take off point for the two aircraft) with the caption "Sniffer dogs are better because they cannot be bought."
Entirely disabused of the negligence excuse, it struck me that the Chechen / fundamentalists will always be able to strike wherever and whenever they like because someone in uniform will always sell them a way around whatever security has been put in place to stop the terrorists - and will do so without any conscience.
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