"But with two of them going down so close together, it's awfully ominous."

I have nothing to add to that.

Taken from this article here about the near simultaneous crashes of two planes in Russia.  When you hear of a single plane crashing, it's horribly tragic -- you pray there are survivors and your heart goes out to the families of the victims.  But when two crash at the same time, you get that horrible sinking feeling that some jerk is back in the business of hijacking planes and killing people for some sort of political ends.

That a hijacking alarm went off on one of the planes before crashing (so says the current news), that both planes left from the same airport within minutes of each other, AND that witnesses say one of the planes exploded before it crashed ...

Damn.