Plane that crashed in Egypt broke up high in air, Russia official says

NY POST ^ | November 1, 2015 | David Li

[COUNTrecount]

The Russian jetliner that crashed in Egypt broke apart in midair, officials said Sunday — sparking speculation that a bomb might have caused the disaster. “All signs attest to the fact that the aircraft disintegrated in the air at a high altitude,” said Aleksandr Neradko, head of Russia’s Air Transport .

Some experts said a planned explosion was more probable than a catastrophic equipment failure. “There’s no sign of a distress call, so the idea that the aircraft was undergoing a mechanical problem or an engine problem or a fire or something like that, you would expect that there would be some sort of distress call beforehand,said Michael Clarke, head of the British defense think tank Royal United Services Institute, told the BBC

[JLAGRAYFOX]

The evidence is mounting fast and firm that this aircraft was blown out of the sky by a terrorist group....most likely a bomb on-board the aircraft, detonated at high altitude!!! Sounds like a Libyan bomb, just like the one that brought down the Pan Am B747 over Lockerbee, Scotland!!!

Keep an open mind.......and do not yet discount a missile........much weapon trading and theft went on in Libya during the overthrow of the Khadafi government....think Benghazi!!!

[NYRepublican72]

If true, Putin isn’t going to pull a Bill Clinton and ignore it. ISIS heads will roll.

[SteveH]

My uneducated impression is that nitrate cAused explosions are relatively simple to detect, so...???

[Red Badger]

The chickens of the Benghazi debacle are coming home to roost.............

[Autonomous User]

Never let a good crisis go to waste. Even if you have to create it...to use it.

Who say’s Vlad didn’t leave with something useful from The Zero after handing him his Azz!

[McGruff]

US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said today he knew of no “direct evidence” that terrorism was to blame for the weekend plane crash of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt.

Speaking at a Washington defense summit, Mr Clapper said it was “unlikely” that the Islamic State group had the capacity to carry out such an attack, but added “I wouldn’t rule it out.”

[McGruff]

Flight 7K9268 lurched up and down several times in the final moments before it lost contact with the ground, according to data from the Flight Radar 24 tracking site.

The Airbus 321 climbed nearly 3,000 feet in three seconds before falling another 3,000 feet a few seconds later, the altitude data shows. It repeated the abrupt rise and fall a second time before it was lost to radar.

The records from the Sweden-based Flight Radar 24 also show the aircraft rapidly losing speed in its last minute. This data is usually very reliable, but can sometimes be affected by an erroneous message.

[redfreedom]

Couldn’t the parts that fell from the sky be forensically analyzed to detect explosive residue?

Does that particular aircraft have a history of it’s airframe just coming apart without warning? If that did happen, then there should be no charred pieces of it.

[CurlyDave]

TCAP (also know as TATP) is not a nitrate-based explosive.

This who make and use it call it “mother of satan” because it is very sensitive.

It is in common use by terrorists.

[SE Mom]

Good grief, what would cause that? Up, down, up, down?

A struggle for control of plane? It just seems an odd thing.

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The Metrojet Airbus A321-200 broke up mid-air on Saturday shortly after takeoff from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg, scattering fragments of wreckage over a wide area in Sinai (left). Terrorism and aviation experts believe a bomb is the only likely explanation, citing the fact there was no distress call from the pilots and that some wreckage shows the fuselage skin peeling outwards (inset) possibly due to a 'force acting outwards from within'. Alexander Smirnov, the deputy general director of Metrojet's parent company Kogalymavia, also told a news conference in Moscow today that the cause of the crash 'could only have been a mechanical impact on the plane' in the air.

[Yaelle]

But, but, wasn’t it announced that “a plane crashed over ISIS territory, we still don’t know much except that of course it wasn’t terrorism”??

[Karl Spooner]

‘external influence’ is the headline over at CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/02/africa/russian-plane-crash-egypt-sinai/

[GreenHornet]

If true, Putin isn’t going to pull a Bill Clinton and ignore it. ISIS heads will roll.

...and unlike Obama, he isn't going to blame it on "an offensive You Tube video."

[null and void]

Does that particular aircraft have a history of it’s airframe just coming apart without warning?

No, BUT that particular aircraft did have a tail strike incident, and at least two other aircraft that had poorly repaired tail strike damage suffered catastrophic failure of the rear pressure bulkhead later.

[Biggirl]

ISIS?

[Navy Patriot]

The groups that will gain the most from an embarassment of the Egyptian government are:

Obama, the DemoRat party and their "Arab Spring" "democracy" movement that ousted a stable and legal Mubarak Presidency.

The US Government supported (in Egypt) Muslim Brotherhood (al Qaeda), and the terrorist criminal Morsi (Obama's hand picked puppet).

The thousands of convicted MB terrorists in Egyptian prisons, and the US Government agents in Egypt working to bring down al Sisi and the current Egyptian Government.

The Muslim Brotherhood operatives and the US Government agents have the means, motive and opportunity to place a sophisticated, difficult to detect, bomb on any airliner that leaves Egypt.

[McGruff]

This is a great embarrassment to Putin and I doubt he’s going to let it stand. If terrorism, you can expect what’s happened so far to be foreplay. This ISIS group in Egypt should be child’s play.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Not sure.....could be any one of the various “terrorist” groups that have spread across the Middle East due to the lack of Obama/Clinton leadership & action!!! Obama and Clinton have truly created a monster!!!

However....Putin & the Russians will quickly get to the bottom of this, and swift devastating response action will be forthcoming!!! It is going to get nasty!!! And...yes, Obama & Clinton will hide in the White House and act stupid and unknowing, not even leadership from behind...just plain no leadership at all!!! Our nation is in deep trouble!!!