[Karl Spooner]

[Lorianne]

Yikes. That doesn’t look like pilot error or equipment failure to me unless that fire happened on the ground after impact.

Anybody have expertise in this area?

[PA Engineer]

What airliner is that? Here is an image of one of the pieces. The plane came apart and was scattered over 5 square kilometers.

[Black Agnes]

Not the same crash/plane.

[null and void]

If the photo at post #1 is part of the plane, this photo ain’t.

Unless it had two tails...

[TXnMA]

Where did you get that image in # 15?

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Something is amiss:

1. The empennage on the supposed Russian plane separated forward of the aft door, is upright, and is unburned and relatively intact. (However, it possibly separated in flight and fell from altitude, because it shows no signs of skidding laterally along the ground).

2. The empennage is still on the A/C you pictured.

3. The A/C you show obviously hit the ground inverted -- and the (still attached) empennage burned.

4. The A/C you show obviously crashed near an airport. (One doesn't drive crash trucks like that hundreds of miles across the Sinai desert... And that is not desert terrain. )

5. The first responders in your photo are all uniformed -- and the a/c has RED markings.

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Why did you post that photo on this thread?

[JPG]

The pic you posted is the Asiana 777 crash in San Francisco.

Why did you post it?

[Moonman62]

That’s the Fedex plane that crashed in Japan in 2011.
See image 10 at the link below:

http://www.news24.com/Multimedia/World/Tokyo-plane-crash-20110916

[Moose4]

That isn’t even the right airplane. That’s a FedEx aircraft, I think an MD-11. They’ve had at least two MD-11s crash on landing inverted like that, one at Newark several years back and one at Tokyo Narita more recently.

}:-)4