Moscow inferno: shocking photo report
Published: 13 May, 2009, 03:13
RT has assembled a photo report from the site of the massive fire in Moscow on May 9. The blaze has been dubbed the largest in the Russian capital for 64 years.
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Moscow’s Mayor Yuri Luzhkov made a statement on Tuesday in which he blamed the way the pipes were welded in 1976 for the spectacular gas explosion in Moscow on Sunday.
A powerful blast has hit a gas pipeline in the west of Moscow, causing a massive fire which has spread across eight hundred square metres. People in different parts of the capital have witnessed the massive fire.
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A Tu-154 aircraft with failed flight control, navigation and radio communication systems has landed in taiga cutting a 200-meter-long swath through the forest, with no casualties and minimum damage to the plane.
08.05.2009, 11:46
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Residents of a village in Siberia say a fragment of rocket hit their house on Thursday night, but the Russian space agency is sceptical about the report.
15.05.2009, 02:57
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In April, a deadly aircraft incident involving about 300 passengers was prevented seconds before a collision could take place, Russia's Federal Air Navigation Service (Rosavianavigatsia) revealed on Wednesday.
Russian rescuers have saved the life of a pilot whose light aircraft got trapped in a 220 kV power line – it was a miraculous escape as his plane could either have fallen or simply burned to ashes.
22.10.2009, 21:54
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A man barely escaped death when an out-of-control bus rampaged through the streets of Perm, Central Russia, crashing into cars. It seems 23-year-old medical student Vitaly was saved by the power of love!
A resident of Russia’s Far East had to spend months in court to prove he was alive after a local registry office mistakenly filed the man as “dead”.
Police have stopped a taxi driver diagnosed with a blood alcohol level equivalent to an alcoholic coma who escaped from hospital to make a quick buck.
The man definitely has the luck of the devil. A serial murder suspect has survived a recent car crash that killed 21 people, including children and his own mother.
Published: 13 May, 2009, 03:13
RT has assembled a photo report from the site of the massive fire in Moscow on May 9. The blaze has been dubbed the largest in the Russian capital for 64 years.