"Siberia Airlines will, since today, expressly demand IDs displayed by all ticket purchasers, and the holder's identity information will be entered in a relevant ticket column," the company says in an official statement.
On previous Russian arrangements, identity papers were shown, and the passport number indicated in the ticket and booking papers for international flights alone. Certain companies specified in inland tickets only the passenger's surname and first name initial. Identity papers were displayed during passenger registration and pre-flight check.
Current safety measures have been necessitated by the tragedies of August 24, as a Volgograd-bound TU 134 liner and a Sochi-bound TU 154 jet crashed. Both had started from Moscow. The crashes took 89 lives.
The TU 154 collapsed in the air in the Rostov Region, European Russia's south. Traces of explosives were found in debris examination. Preliminary tests identified the substance as hexogen. The fragments of the TU 134, which crashed in the Tula Region, Central Russia, offered no trace of explosives, says Sergei Ignatchenko, chief of PR for the Federal Security Service, or FSB.
There was one Amanta Nagayeva of Grozny, Chechen capital, among the TU 134 passengers. No friends or relations have inquired after her, report the Volgograd regional prosecutor's officers.
