Our Aeroflot plane stopped on the journey home to refuel in the Ukraine.

The necessary papers were provided for him, the travelling arranged, and by noon he was on an Aeroflot plane to Geneva.

Initial reports from Soviet television on Wednesday had said that 176 people were killed when the Aeroflot plane crashed 2,600 miles east of Moscow.

An Aeroflot plane with 97 people aboard disappeared from radar screens early today in Russia's Far East and is presumed to have crashed.

Boarding the Aeroflot plane to Moscow, Dana thought, It's deja vu.

No one even knows where they will get the fuel for Mikhail S. Gorbachev's Aeroflot plane.

In 1990, three Aeroflot planes were hijacked to Sweden and all of the Russian hijackers surrendered.

An estimated 40 percent of Aeroflot planes remained grounded today because of the shortages.

In its report, Soviet television said of the Yakutsk accident: "The wings fell off an incoming Aeroflot plane.

Last year, 25 Aeroflot planes went down on domestic soil, killing 125 people.