Speculation grows of Assad's death in plane crash

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Speculation grows of Assad's death in plane crash
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Lando Norris won the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday to secure McLaren's first Formula One constructors' title since 1998 after teammate Oscar Piastri collided with Max Verstappen on the opening lap and finished 10th.

A file photo of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad as he chairs the central committee of the ruling Baath party in Damascus on Oct 7, 2018. - AFP

Assad has not spoken in public since the sudden rebel advance a week ago, when insurgents seized northern Aleppo in a surprise attack before marching into a succession of cities as frontlines crumbled.A Syrian Air plane took off from Damascus airport around the time the capital was reported to have been taken by rebels, according to data from the flightradar website.

"It disappeared off the radar, possibly the transponder was switched off, but I believe the bigger probability is that the aircraft was taken down...," said one Syrian source without elaborating. The only trackable flight departing Syria visible after midnight on flightradar24, a flight tracking site, left Homs for the UAE, but that was hours after rebels had captured the city.

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