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Search for radioactive material on Russian plane

NEW YORK, OCT. 23. U.S. Federal agents visited an airliner from Moscow at the John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday after receiving a tip that it may have radioactive material on board, law enforcement officials said.

An official told The Associated Press that the Aeroflot plane was ordered to keep its distance from the passenger terminals. The official did not elaborate.

Investigators were allowing the plane's 176 passengers off the flight in small groups.

''The only thing I can tell you is that it is because we're intending to interview one of the passengers on the plane,'' the FBI spokesman, Joe Valiquette, said.

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