MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Air controllers on Tuesday lost
contact with an airplane with 44 passengers on board, Interfax
news agency reported.
It quoted Emergencies ministry as saying contacts with
Tu-154 flying from Moscow to the Black Sea resort of Sochi were
lost at 1900 GMT when it was expected to be 140 km (90 miles)
from the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.
Earlier Russian news agencies said that around the same time
another Russian passenger plane with more than 50 passengers on
board went missing near the town of Tula, south of Moscow.