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In 1973, at the Paris air show the Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashed, killing 15 people.
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The plane, a Tupolev-154, was en route from the Siberian city of Polyarny to Moscow when it lost power.
BBC: System failure plane makes 'miracle' landing in Russia
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In 1975, the Tupolev-144 became the world's first supersonic aircraft to go into regular service, carrying mail from Moscow to Alma Ata.
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On 29 December, the crash-landing of a Tupolev-204 aircraft was recorded on the dashboard camera of a car on a nearby motorway.
BBC: Meteor highlights rise of dashboard cameras in Russia
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One of the planes in question, the Tupolev 154, was the most commonly used plane in the former Soviet Union, he told BBC News 24.
BBC: NEWS | Europe | Air experts doubt accident theory
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The plane, a Tupolev Tu-204, is capable of carrying 210 people.
CNN: Death toll rises in Russia plane crash
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The Tupolev overshot the end of the tarmac by about 200m (656ft) before coming to a stop in a bog, Russia's general prosecutor said in a statement.
BBC: System failure plane makes 'miracle' landing in Russia
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The Saudis said they decided to storm the plane after reaching "a dead end" in negotiations during the 18 hours the Vnukova Airlines Tupolev 154 jet was parked on the tarmac at Medina.
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The Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers landed at Venezuela's Libertador military airfield and "will spend several days carrying out training flights over neutral waters, after which they will return to the base, " the ministry added.
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This difference in speed was such that when European leaders took off from New York, more or less en masse, to return from the United Nations General Assembly, it was noticeable that the Tupolev was always first across the Atlantic and back in European airspace.
ECONOMIST: European politics