2004 Russian aircraft bombings
| Occurrence summary | |
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| Date | 24 August 2004 |
| Summary | Suicide bombings |
| Site | Tula and Rostov Oblasts, Russia |
| Total fatalities | 90 (all) |
| Total survivors | 0 |
| First aircraft | |
 A Tupolev Tu-134 similar to the one involved |
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| Type | Tupolev Tu-134A-3 |
| Operator | Volga-AviaExpress |
| Registration | RA-65080 |
| Flight origin | Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow |
| Destination | Volgograd International Airport, Volgograd |
| Passengers | 35 |
| Crew | 9 |
| Fatalities | 44 (all) |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Second aircraft | |
 A Siberia Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M, RA-85556's sister aircraft |
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| Type | Tupolev Tu-154B-2 |
| Operator | Siberia Airlines |
| Registration | RA-85556 |
| Flight origin | Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow |
| Destination | Adler-Sochi International Airport, Sochi |
| Passengers | 38 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Fatalities | 46 (all) |
| Survivors | 0 |
 Photos of the crashed Tu-134
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Photos of the crashed Tu-154
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The 2004 Russian aircraft bombings occurred on board two domestic Russian passenger flights at around 23:00 on 24 August 2004. Both aircraft had flown out of Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow and carried a combined total of 90 people, none of whom survived.
Note: All times quoted below are local times, UTC +4. All events occurred in the same time zone.
The first to crash was Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1353, a Tu-134 aircraft, registered RA-65080, which had been in service since 1977. The plane was flying from Moscow to Volgograd. It left Domodedovo International Airport at 22:30 on 24 August 2004. Communication with the plane was lost at 22:56 while it was flying over Tula Oblast, 180 km south-east of Moscow. The remains of the aircraft were found on the ground several hours later. Witnesses on the ground said that they saw a strong explosion on the plane before it crashed. 34 passengers and 9 crew members were on board the plane. All of them died in the crash.
Just minutes after the first crash, Siberia Airlines Flight 1047, which had left Domodedovo International Airport at 21:35 on 24 August 2004, disappeared from the radar screens and crashed. The Tu-154 aircraft, registered RA-85556, which had been in service since 1982, was flying from Moscow to Sochi. According to an unnamed government source of the Russian news agency Interfax, the plane had broadcast a hijack warning while flying over Rostov Oblast at 22:59. The plane disappeared from radar screens shortly after that and crashed. 38 passengers and 8 crew members were on board the plane, and there were no survivors after the crash. The debris of the aircraft was found on the morning of 25 August 2004, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from the work settlement of Gluboky in Kamensky District of Rostov Oblast.
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