News Bombing at Domodedovo airport, Moscow

[SiberianTiger]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12268662

If someone you know might be on one of these flights, you'd be concerned:

• Lufthansa LH2526, from München
• Transaero UN7324, from Wien
• Austrian OS601, from Wien
• Egypt Air MS729, from Cairo
• Montenegro YM600, from Podgorica
• Lufthansa LH2994, from Hamburg
• BritishAir BA872, from London
• S7 Airlines S74106, from Wien
• S7 Airlines S74892, from Düsseldorf
• S7 Airlines S74898, from München
• Air Berlin AB8282, from München
• Air Berlin AB8394, from Düsseldorf
• NIKI HG8106, from München
• Brussels SN2835, from Brussels

Might be others.

 

[Urwumpe]

Oh my quantum fluctuations....

That looks serious. Luckily I don't remember anybody being in or traveling via Moscow today myself, but I wish all the best to those who have.

 

[Cairan]

Yeah, our news networks spinners are spinning a lot on this today, throwing everything around from Georgian revenge to Dagestan, with the unavoidable Chechnya mentions...

 

[Wishbone]

What Georgian revenge?

So far 35 dead, 152 wounded, 39 of the wounded are hospitalised to Moscow ECUs.

The number of accomplices is unknown.

 

[Urwumpe]

The number of accomplices is unknown.

The security camera video sounds like he had at least informers at the airport, since he successfully managed to evade the security scanners.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Yeah, our news networks spinners are spinning a lot on this today, throwing everything around from Georgian revenge to Dagestan, with the unavoidable Chechnya mentions...

And in the first comments to news in Russian, you can see pointing fingers at Putin and FSB, implying that the explosions were result of a conspiracy plot aiming to boost Putin's popularity before the 2012's election. However, I think that this time (at least) it isn't looking logical, because it sounds very much like shooting in one's leg. I expect a considerable number of the victims to be foreign citizens, mostly the Europeans, and this is smelling very much of Islamic Terror agenda, like sending a signal: "The entire Russia is a war zone for us. If you dare to enter it, you are a legitimate target for us". And it does not matter very much which terrorist organization is behind it, because they are basically right in seeing a breach between civilizations crossing land somewhere nearby.

Or maybe we just get used to everyday's life turning into bloody nightmare too much.

 

[Cairan]

What Georgian revenge?

That's what I meant by my comment on what those braindead 24/7 news anchors are throwing around... one of these morons here on a French-language network asked someone (correspondant) in Moscow if it could be Georgian nationalists exacting revenge for the S. Ossetia mess of almost three years ago... Of course, the correspondent being affiliated with Agence France Presse, it would have been a hilarious 2 minutes of incoherent babbling had it not for the images of chaos looping on TV at the same time...

Nowadays I think the media just throw stuff on the walls and wait to see what sticks... Spaghetti Journalism! :facepalm:

 

[Notebook]

I often watch Russia Today, they seem to be an honest or realistisc report from that area?
This looks awful.

N.

 

[Cairan]

So do I, RT nowadays often puts the most credible pieces out there... been watching it too on and off for the past few hours...

 

[N_Molson]

Happy to see you're OK SiberianTiger & Wishbone, I hope the other orbinauts from Moscow were away from the airport today.

That's a stupid and pointless attack. Russian people have seen far far worse and will never get intimidated by this. It's like going inside the cave of the russian bear and waking him up in the middle of winter... Very wrong idea... :shrug:

 

[Urwumpe]

That's a stupid and pointless attack. Russian people have seen far far worse and will never get intimidated by this. It's like going inside the cave of the russian bear and waking him up in the middle of winter... Very wrong idea... :shrug:

Its smarter as attempting this when the bear is awake.

 

[SiberianTiger]

That's what I meant by my comment on what those braindead 24/7 news anchors are throwing around... one of these morons here on a French-language network asked someone (correspondant) in Moscow if it could be Georgian nationalists exacting revenge for the S. Ossetia mess of almost three years ago... Of course, the correspondent being affiliated with Agence France Presse, it would have been a hilarious 2 minutes of incoherent babbling had it not for the images of chaos looping on TV at the same time...

Let investigators do their job, and probably, some real answers will emerge. As to accusing Georgians in taking such a step, I'd say it would be a strange way to support Georgia for that French-language network, unless they mean the opposite.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Articles shedding light on just two of the poor souls out of the 35 who perished in the blast:

• Briton killed by Moscow airport bomb was due to marry
• Moscow airport bomb: Ukraine writer Yablonskaya dead

Russian Emergency Command identified 28 of the 35 dead found at the blast site, out of which 1 citizen of Tajikistan, 1 of Austria, 1 of Great Britain, 1 of Ukraine, 1 of Uzbekistan, 1 of Germany, 1 of Kyrgyzstan, and the remaining 21 were the Russians. The current list is available at: http://www.mchs.gov.ru/pred.html

110 wounded people are hospitalized in 25 clinics in Moscow and Moscow's suburbs, 6 of which are in troubling condition at the moment. Out of those whose nationality is identified, there are citizens of Russia, Tajikistan, Slovenia, Serbia, Germany, Moldova, Italy, France, Uzbekistan, Nigeria on the list: http://www.mchs.gov.ru/spis.html

A Moscow territory-wide mourning day is declared. Healthy people officially registered in Moscow and suburbs are urged to donate blood to help the wounded.

The airport continues working with increased security awareness level.

 

[Carmen A]

There appears to be a lot of protesting, bombing, shooting, etc going on at the same time in the world today...

 

[SiberianTiger]

It turned out that one employee from the same company I'm in, a lady from Austria was killed in the blast when she was on her business trip. My God, I still can find her contacts in the personnel directory...