• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    There’s video footage of missile trace remnants intercepting the plane’s flight path. That thing got shot down.

    What’s less clear is whether prigozhin got offed, or if it was more along the lines of him faking his death.

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          initial eyewitness reports from Telegram, accompanied by direct video evidence of a plane falling out of the sky with obvious catastrophic damage

          there is no room for doubt… that airframe had all of its capabilities aggressively shut down by some external physical process… maybe it was Thor, but no… it wasn’t anything but really capable land based missiles…

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      I mean you can see the remnants of the missile contrail in that clip that was posted on streamable. 100% shot down.

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    At the end

    Online flight tracker Flightradar24 last recorded the position of the aircraft at 3:11 p.m. GMT, before the crash. Jamming or interference in the area probably slowed the collection of further location data.

    Other data continued for nine minutes. Flightradar24 said the jet went thorough a series of ascents and descents of a few thousand feet each over 30 seconds before its final, disastrous plunge. Flightradar24 received its final data on the jet at 3:20 p.m.

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      If you look at the video from the ground you can see it’s missing an entire wing and it’s spinning and fluttering back and forth weirdly as it falls towards the ground.

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    I’ll believe it in a couple of years if he doesn’t turn up having faked his death again.

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    “After a failed orbital adjustment resulted in a negative perigee, Wagner leadership has ceased its existence as a result of a collision with the Earth litosphere”, according to Rocosmos Airlines.

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    1 year ago

    If your airplane suffers sudden decompression and you get sucked out a window, would it technically be a defenestration?

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      Maybe but might be a stretch. Defenestration refers to the act of throwing someone/something out of a window. We have to consider the pressure “throwing” instead of sucking you out, which might be acceptable since the pressure inside the plane is greater and ends up pushing you out of the window in it’s escape. From the perspective that you’re sucked out of the window, it doesn’t seem like the definition would apply.

  • Parabola@lemmy.world
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    Well yes that’s how time works. Before something happens, the thing hasn’t yet changed…