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Old 05-10-2012, 12:31 AM
WTE_Galway WTE_Galway is offline
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Its been often rumored that Sukhoi's poor safety record in the 70's and 80's was partly due to the old Soviet regimes habit of shooting down hijacked civilian planes and blaming it on systems failure or pilot error.

Seems unlikely this time though.
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