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Yeah, the publicly available flight information shows it basically exploded wholesale in mid-air. That doesn't just happen with modern aircraft.
by WarDores 7y ago
Yeah, the publicly available flight information shows it basically exploded wholesale in mid-air. That doesn't just happen with modern aircraft.
- megous 7y agoHow so? Debris field doesn't look that large and the supposed video of the crash shows burning plane and large explosion on impact to the ground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_iizkgIOfU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_iizkgIOfU
- WarDores 7y agoThe flight information on FlightRadar24 shows no sign of deviation or trouble, then abruptly ends during the ascent. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/ukrainian-flight-ps752-crashes-shortly-after-take-off-from-tehran/ https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/ukrainian-flight-ps752-cr...
- megous 7y agoThat doesn't mean it exploded mid-air. If it exploded mid-air where the FlightRadar24 data end, the debris field would be in the direction of the flight and spread wide. Debris field is in the opposite direction and elsewhere though.
- geoelectric 7y agoThat means the transponder became non-viable at that point. Any sort of in-air catastrophe could have caused that, including onboard fire. Redundant airplane systems protect against component failure, but they tend to still be near each other. For example, if an AA gun were to tag the plane in the right place it could easily take out power to both a primary and backup. It really doesn't look like a mid-air explosion. It was either a massive spontaneous fire for some reason (assuming the burning thing in the social media post was the plane) or it got shot down.
- megous 7y agoLooks like it got shot down, it just wasn't destroyed right away. Now there's even a video of the event. https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1215348488164298752 https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1215348488164298752
- GoToRO 7y agoIt was not that high, so the area is smaller than it would have been if the plane would have fallen from 10000 km altitude.
- GoToRO 7y agoAlso the way the debris were scattered on the ground suggests an explosion. This also correlates with what they said about no mayday call from the aircraft. It was taken down or it was a collission with a drone or something like that.
- vanniv 7y agoWell, most airframes will explode wholesale in mid-air when they come into contact with anti-aircraft missiles (which, of course, was your point -- and also, as it turns out, what happened)