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Putin order for bomb threat plane to be downed in 2014 cancelled after false alarm


MOSCOW: Russia´s Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered a passenger aircraft which was reported to be carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be downed, the president said in a film shown on Sunday.In a 2-hour documentary titled “Putin” and available on Russian social media, Putin told reporter Andrey Kondrashov he received a telephone call from security officers responsible for the Sochi Olympics on Feb. 7, 2014, shortly before the opening ceremony was due to start.“I was told: a plane en route from Ukraine to Istanbul was seized, captors demand landing in Sochi,” …read more

Source: The News International

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