Posted on 03/12/2024 5:10:30 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A RUSSIAN military plane crashed in a fireball after flames were seen spurting from one of its engines.
It is the latest disaster from Vladimir Putin's creaking military as the IL-76 went down in Ivanovo, Russia.
The large aircraft is widely used by the Russian military as a transport plane for the war in Ukraine.
It is reported numerous bodies were recovered from the wreckage.
Dramatic footage captured the plane plunging from the sky with flames spitting from one of its engines.
Putin's military is wracked with corruption and its vehicles and aircraft are often poorly maintained.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
As an aside, the Osprey has just been cleared back into service after a three month fleetwide grounding due to the recent Air Force CV-22B crash in Japan.
No fix has been found for what brought down the CV-22B, but rest assured that the program office has deemed the V-22s airworthy again.
My source confirm this story is TRUE. Virtually the FIRST time from this bunch.
Glad the US isn’t having airplane issues!
Let us not forget that there are men and possibly women onboard that aircraft that are in abject terror as they are about to meet their doom, and they know it.................
Meanwhile, Russian Bombers capable of carrying nuclear bombs have been diverted to the safety of Syria and out of Ukranian drone range.
True, but Russia is nirvana just ask tucker
Looks like the Soviet copy of the C-141.
They are Russian military and their minds really don’t matter.
Russian Military is incompeteent and inept
Russian Miltary is on the precipce to sweep over Europe blitzkieg style and rule the content
Waiting for the narrative to make up its mind
4 engine jet...should fly fine on 3 engines.
Liar. Tucker never said that. It is pathetic that a zeeper has to lie. You people lie about everything because the truth doesn’t support your cause.
Can you read?
“True, but Russia is nirvana just ask tucker”
Children are actually SAFE in Russia when they head off to school - FAR DIFFERENT from the West.
bttt
“Let us not forget that there are men and possibly women onboard that aircraft that are in abject terror as they are about to meet their doom”
When watching actual wartime footage of WWII and other wars where a plane is in the process of burning and crashing I think of those on board. In particular the Japanese chained to their cockpits with no means of escape.
The only good news is their terror is short lived and hopefully their death is quick.
For a lot of my career, I did failure analysis on military equipment. Lots of times I was dealing with a lump of melted metal and charcoal. There was this absolute political requirement to get to the root cause and find a “permanent” corrective action so the failure would never occur again. In my opinion, it was a stupid requirement as all political requirements are. It just wasn’t possible from the available evidence. So, we often ended up attributing the failure to something we could fix. Often the “fix” was to “retrain the operators.” Stupid, stupid, stupid. The failure review board would look at me like I was a bug crawling out from under a rock. Justifiably so. The figurative gavel would fall, and the incident was over...until it happened again.
The people with that plane have no other choice as they have a mission to perform and that’s the tool they have. Is the tool flawed? Probably. Will it fail again and kill more people? Probably. Is there anything the military can do about it? Probably not. So, they’re back to flying. What choice do they have?
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