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FILE- from February 1995 showing Svalbard Airport in Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago Svlbard in the Barents Sea. A Russian Tupolev 154 passenger plane carrying 141 people, including the 12 crew members, were believed to have died when it crashed Thursday August 29, 1996, near the top of Opera Mountain, about 10 Km (6 miles) from the Longyearbyen airport, the latest in a series of deadly accidents that have plagued Russian airlines in recent years. (KEYSTONE/AP photo/ rune Petter Ness)