Includes technical specifications and cutaway views of the aircraft, a history of its development, and coverage of the Air France flight AF4590 July 2000 accident.
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Manama, Bahrain, Thursday, Aug. 24 -- A Gulf Air jet carrying 143 people crashed into shallow Persian Gulf waters Wednesday night after circling and trying to land in Bahrain, killing everyone aboard, officials said.
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With a public confession tonight by President Vladimir V. Putin that he feels "responsibility and guilt" for the loss of the nuclear submarine Kursk, Russia's political evolution seems to be taking a new kind of post-Soviet turn.
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Speaking in somber tones and at times struggling for words, Russia's defense minister, Marshal Igor D. Sergeyev, offered a defense tonight of the military's failure to rescue the crew of the stricken nuclear submarine Kursk.
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President Vladimir V. Putin promised the grieving families of the 118-member crew of the destroyed nuclear submarine Kursk tonight that the government would pay each family the equivalent of an officer's salary for 10 years to compensate them for their loss,
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