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[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's chance none of them were alive when the plane took off.
The cool thing about plane crashes is that they make autopsies reeaally superficial.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, right, the plane took off on its own, did it? Remind me again of the avionics in an Embraer? I didn't realise they had introduced communication with ATC, navigating the airport etc. completely automatically.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dude I'm really not trying to build a conspiracy theory, all I'm saying is that it doesn't need a Machiavellian genius to put 10 corpses on a plane, fly it at altitude and jump off with a parachute before it crashes in the forest. It's like "Action movie 101".

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also adding a quick comment to apologise for my snide comment in the beginning. I think I hadn’t gotten my morning coffee yes - an explanation but no excuse. Sorry.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

No worries man, I also tend to get pissed at people that form their opinion without doing research first, so no hard feelings ❤

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But the plane was flying at cruise speed and there’s only two exits on the Legacy 600 - left side passenger door or over the wings. Either of of those gets a pilot sucked straight into an engine. A few people have parachuted off a passenger plane, but only through emergency exits behind the wings (with wing mounted engines) or the tail staircase.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You obviously know about planes more than me.
Still I agree with @RonJonGuaido that Prigozhin had no logic reason to be on a flight in Russian territory (other than being someway forced to do that)

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s odd is that it looks like the plane was leaving Moscow, not arriving.

He may simply have felt safe, for reasons we don’t understand.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yet the plane was on its way to st. Petersburg according to the article... That's a hell of a detour for a man that was supposed to be in Africa

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

This isn't an action movie.

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you bother? Just hide a bomb in the landing gear bay when servicing the plane just before taxi.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but that doesn't answer the question "what was he doing in a land where they want him dead?"