passengers might have been on an assasination list by Vladimir Putin or Dmitri Medvedev. Destroying a plane load of passengers to get at one person has been used as a coverup of assasinations in the past. When US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown threatened then President Bill Clinton with exposing Clinton's dirty secrets if Ron Brown was prosecuted for crimes in office which was expected to happen...the plane with Ron Brown and all the passengers which included 32 CEO's of companies crashed in Eastern Europe. The one survivor, Kelly Flinn, a stewardess was rescued only to suffer a four inch cut to her femoral artery on the rescue helicopter. The people were CREMATED before the bodies were given to relatives. But an autopsy showed a bullet shot into the back of Ron Brown's head. This information is available on video from the Prophecy Club of Topeka, Kansas, at www.prophecyclub.com. TWA flight 888 was shot down according to nongovernment investigators like Craig Roberts (author of Medusa File, etc) to kill a person on the flight and make it look like an accident or tragic event that was unavoidable. So I wonder who the target was in this crash.

Debkafile have the answer to your questions: http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5580 One of the passengers has been identified as Gen. Gennadiy Troshev, who was esteemed as a Russian hero for quelling the Chechen rebellion and believed to be targeted for death.