October 10, 2001	Wednesday	Rajab 22, 1422

SOCHI (Russia), Oct 9: Russian crash investigators said on Tuesday they had discovered parts similar to components of S200 missiles in the wreckage of a Russian airliner which exploded and crashed over the Black Sea on Thursday.

“A great number of metallic parts were found which are very similar to parts of the S200 rocket,” Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, a member of the investigating commission, said.

A second commission official said that a radio locating station had picked up an unidentified object flying towards the scene of the explosion. —Reuters