Pravda (make sure you have your grain of salt handy) has a report that the two Russian airliners that crashed on Tuesday were blown out of the sky by explosives planted in their rear bathrooms: TU-134 and TU-154 were exploded from their toilets. (Hat tip: Sean II.)

At first, the experts on explosives were puzzled as they saw no traces of explosions in the passenger salons or noses of the planes. However, when the tail part of the TU-154 was examined, in the area where the toilet is, a piece of the edging with the illuminator had been torn away. Experts believe this is an evidence of small explosion, and after it the tail was torn and the plain went down and collapsed into pieces. This version was confirmed by the results of the searching on the ground. In both Tula and Rostov regions the planes fell in the same way: the tail, then - fuselage, the nose part and the cockpit. Had the planes collapsed in the air with no explosions, their tails would inevitably have fallen behind. It could be brought forward only after an explosion had taken place.

As for explosives, they could be of small power - up to 500 grams of trotyl. This was sufficient for blowing up the planes. It would not be hard for the terrorists to bring explosives in size of two bars of soap, aboard the planes.

Chairman of the Commission on investigating the crashes causes Igor Levitin said that the information is collected on passenger Jebirkhanova who had been on the plane flying to Sochi. No relatives asked about her, and no information is known on her. A similar situation is about a native of Chechnya Amanta Nagaeva who was flying on the plane to Volgograd.

The experts have a version that the martyrs put the explosives in action in the toilets. For this reason, there was no fire on the planes, and most of the bodies were neither burned no disfigured by explosion.