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By the way, the Soviets came up with an equally large plane during the '50s called the Tupolev Tu-114.
Dark Roasted Blend Avi Abrams 2010
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Also aboard the Tupolev were the national bank president, the deputy foreign minister, the Army chaplain, the head of the National Security Office, the deputy Parliament speaker, the Olympic Committee head and at least two presidential aides and 17 lawmakers.
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Also aboard the Tupolev were the national bank president, the deputy foreign minister, the Army chaplain, the head of the National Security Office, the deputy Parliament speaker, the Olympic Committee head and at least two presidential aides and 17 lawmakers.
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Also aboard the Tupolev were the army chief of staff, the navy chief commander, and heads of the air and land forces, the national bank president, the deputy foreign minister, the army chaplain, the head of the National Security Office, the deputy parliament speaker, the Olympic Committee head and at least two presidential aides and 17 lawmakers.
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With completion of nearly ready aircraft, Russia's air force was found to have only six "White Swans," as pilots dubbed the Tupolev Tu-160.
In The Days 2008
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With completion of nearly ready aircraft, Russia's air force was found to have only six "White Swans," as pilots dubbed the Tupolev Tu-160.
In The Days 2008
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Poland's delegation—which included President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, the country's central bank governor and top commanders of its army—died in April 2010 when the Polish government's Russian-made Tupolev aircraft crashed on approach in thick fog near a retired airport in Smolensk, western Russia.
Poland Faults Its Pilots in Crash, but Implicates Russia Marcin Sobczyk 2011
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As a result, the Tupolev was about 130 meters off course as it descended through clouds.
Russia Faces New Air-Safety Crisis Gregory L. White 2011
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The plane, a Tupolev 134, was carrying 52 people, including nine crew members, veered off course while landing, clipped trees and hit a power line before crashing and burning just short of a runway at Petrozavodsk airport, about 650 kilometers northwest of Moscow.
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President Kaczynski rang his brother Jaroslaw from the cabin of his official Tupolev 154 jet.
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