41.   At the season-opening Australian Grand Prix Schumacher avoided a first lap crash that eliminated Barrichello and his brother Ralf along with nearly half the field.

42.   Touching on the first crash Sunday, Chief of Staff General Anatoly Kvashnin said the downing of the chopper over northern Chechnya could have been a terrorist attack.

43.   It was the first fatal crash involving an Airbus.

44.   It was not the first crash Adventure Airlines has had.