Russian airliner missing over Egypt
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Post them, don't be oppressed.
But the world's foremost experts are in GD, experts who can conclude anything from nothing.
Also no mayday? so its happened fast very fast.
Or the crew were overwhelmed working the problem & never had the opportunity to get off a mayday, it kinda reminds me of Air France flight 447.
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Even if stalled the decent speed would create enough lift to stop it reaching 6000fpm.
If it was a bomb/missile then the explosion could have caused the ascent before the fall, If it had ripped through the aileron controls before rapid decent.
That thing fell apart in the sky full of fuel for some reason.
Also no mayday? so its happened fast very fast.
If there was an explosion big enough to do major control or structural damage when the plane was at 30,000 feet then there would be lots of debris in a very wide range (as in, a debris field with a diameter of tens of miles). So in my very uneducated opinion I doubt an explosion, or anything else that would cause the plane to break up mid flight, brought the plane down from that height because from the pictures I've seen the debris is mostly in one small area.
However, teaboy5 is right. Speculation won't achieve much so I'll leave my thoughts on the causes at that, and say RIP to all the passengers and crew on board.
224 lost, 217 passengers of them 25 children and 7 crew. I hope the end for them was quick, RIP.
While to start with there was talk of an SOS, now they (Mr Kamal) said "Up until the crash happen, we were never informed of any faults in the plane nor did we receive any SOS calls."
While to start with there was talk of an SOS, now they (Mr Kamal) said "Up until the crash happen, we were never informed of any faults in the plane nor did we receive any SOS calls."
Calm yourself.
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Maybe do with the tail and bulkhead which was repaired by MEA airline... Like Japan 123 accident in 1985.. Seem that it broke up in midair than crash on land... Pick all piece and then put it on like jigsaw to find out the cause of accident
Even captain Hollister?
Due to a rapid descent or broke up then dropped?
Seems to point to a structural catastrophic failure that's caused it. Possibly either a explosive decompression event like braveheart mentioned or a bomb.
Search area has been expanded by 9miles as they've found bodies elsewhere away from the main site now.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a bomb
I doubt it would have been difficult to do, Sharm airport is a horrid place , its organised chaos and I can't see security being upto much
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In before all the Russian/US/Israeli/NATO red-flag/revenge kind of issues start to surface.
If that plane was brought down by malicious intent Putin is going get medieval on the usual suspects.
It's absolutely no consolation to those lost or who have lost anyone but I hope this is an accident. There is enough strife going on already in the middle east without more provocations and complications.
If that plane was brought down by malicious intent Putin is going get medieval on the usual suspects.
It's absolutely no consolation to those lost or who have lost anyone but I hope this is an accident. There is enough strife going on already in the middle east without more provocations and complications.
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With the plane crashing over land the black boxes have been recovered with relative ease.
I think they will be able to tell between technical failure or terrorism quite quickly.
RIP to those poor passengers and crew.
I think they will be able to tell between technical failure or terrorism quite quickly.
RIP to those poor passengers and crew.