Russian newspapers, with few exceptions, scorn the official view that the two plane crashes which killed 89 people on Tuesday night were the result of a technical fault or human error.

They are also scathing about security at the country's airports, and some suggest that August has become the "season" for terror attacks.

Disaster on schedule. Now Russia has its own 11 September.

Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Practically none of our informed intelligence sources has any doubt that the double air disaster was a carefully planned act of terror, rather than a tragic coincidence. And they are all inclined to believe that it is related to the Chechen presidential elections, which are to take place this Sunday.

Moskovskiy Komsomolets

99 per cent certain it was terrorism.

Komsomolskaya Pravda

[Chechen rebel spokesman] Akhmad Zakayev has already said that [Chechen rebel leader Aslan] Maskhadov has nothing to do with the terrorist attack. This is the standard approach from the Chechen guerrillas. While the Red Brigades of the 1970s immediately claimed responsibility for attacks, the Chechens prefer to blame everything on the Kremlin.

Novaya Gazeta

The investigating team said they were checking the lists of those killed. They are looking particularly closely at two female passengers with Eastern surnames. They both bought tickets at the airport about an hour or 90 minutes before the flight, checked in at about the same time, then got on different flights. The investigators are now checking who they are and where they came from.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta

Could the terrorists have been aiming for a nuclear power station?

Pravda

Experts investigating the crash have not ruled out a carefully planned act of terrorism. One fact supporting this theory is that the military centre of Russia's unified air traffic control system registered a signal from the Tu-154, before communications were lost, that it had been hijacked.

Pravda

Although experts are not ruling out the aircraft crashing as a result of terrorist actions, the known condition of the Russian aircraft fleet, and the country's aircraft industry as a whole, unfortunately does not rule out a continuation of the sad list of air tragedies.

Krasnaya Zvezda

An explosion took place before the air crashes on the Kashirskoye highway, which leads straight to Domodedovo airport. One suggestion is that the blast was organised to distract the law enforcement bodies from preparations for the terrorist attack on the aircraft. In the same way, terrorists set off a "distraction" bomb near McDonalds before seizing the Nord-Ost Theatre in 2002.

Komsomolskaya Pravda

Useless "security alert" - The capital's airports said that security had been stepped up the evening before the crashes, following Tuesday's tragedy on the Kashirskoye highway.

Izvestiya

Staff at Domodedovo airport are on alert. There are guards all around. But funnily enough, Moskovskiy Komsomolets correspondents were easily able to get in through a service entrance straight onto the apron and up to the aircraft. We spent an hour happily wandering between various airliners being prepared for flight.

Moskovskiy Komsomolets

There's probably some kind of justification for it, like: let's not cause a panic or make the public nervous. I hope that is what they were thinking in the prosecutor-general's office... This touching care for our mental well-being has not been wasted. The public has not become nervous and has not panicked. The public understood everything straight away. Despite the titanic efforts of state television, we are not all imbeciles just yet.

Moskovskiy Komsomolets

This is the fifth year in a row that terrorist attacks with large numbers of victims have taken place in the same month. Why the peak of terrorist activity in Russia always comes in August-September-October remains a mystery.

Nezavisimaya Gazeta

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