How does it feel,Vlad? The shoe's on the other foot!
Too bad it wasn't the Dutch or the Malaysians who shot it down
This may get the airline company off the hook, but will raise more ominous possibilities such as ISIS shootdown or onboard terrorism. Then the Syrian war will escalate. For now, it is just as likely that it is a way of panicked company saying whatever they can come up with to dodge the blame.
Will we ever know the truth?
Isn’t ISIS putting out a video showing them shooting it down?
Or has that been dis-proven?
CNN’s aviation expert thought it had to be a bomb on-board not a missile strike.
How does it feel,Vlad? The shoe's on the other foot!
Too bad it wasn't the Dutch or the Malaysians who shot it down
The most likely cause is explosive decompression either from a faulty cargo door or undetected structural damage over the 18 year life of the airframe.
Well, you’d expect them to say that.
Bomb in the aft cargo. Could be barometric or timed. It could even have been radio controlled with the real estate below an open terrorist playground.
“There are no technical failures that could lead to the plane breaking up in the air,” Alexander Smirnov, director of flights at Kogalymavia charter airline told a press conference in Moscow.
He added that “the only explanation — is some kind of external action”, without giving further details.
He said the plane began falling out of control and the pilots had no time to report the emergency situation.
“The crew totally lost control and for that reason there was not one attempt to get in contact and report on the accident situation onboard,” Smirnov said.
The plane was “flying out of control — that is it wasn’t flying, it was falling,” he said.
“Apparently by that moment the plane had received significant damage to its construction that did not allow it to continue the flight.”
Well then the answer is clear. The fuel tank exploded.
Shouldn't they wait to see what the black box info contains before DECLARING this ?
They may be right, but how can they say this without an investigation? They really should be more cautious with speculation.
With so many things in motion over there and in Iraq...it may be hard to track down. Now before anybody says this is not feasible nor possible...please note the ISIS forces in our A-1 ABRHAMS TANKS AND HUMVEES.
Some group or groups has this stuff and had it in hiding or in the heat of battle had no idea how to deploy it...until now!
Things just got a heel-ah-vah lot more complicated in the mid-east.
GET ALL OUR PEOPLE OUT NOW !!!!
WE CAN BOMB THEM FROM THE SEA/SPACE.
Any bets that the Black Box goes missing?
Seems to be some disagreement here:
Russian aviation agency head Alexander Neradko says claim by Metrojet official that Egypt crash was not a technical or pilot error is ‘premature and not based on any real facts’ - @AP
Has anybody seen Richard Reid lately...?
Wow that was fast. Don’t even have all the pieces of the plane yet.