Posted on 11/01/2015 10:58:19 AM PST by libh8er
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The large area over which fragments were found indicates that the jet disintegrated while flying high, said Alexander Neradko, head of Russia's federal aviation agency. He would not comment on any possible reason for the crash, citing the ongoing investigation.
Neradko was in Egypt to inspect the crash site along with Russia's ministers of emergencies and transport.
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There are photos of the plane in the air showing a large explosion at the rear section of the plane, more consistent with a bomb in the cargo section than aircraft failure or attack by a missile.
This aircraft had a tail strike on the runway during a previous flight years ago.. It was ‘repaired’ but perhaps serious internal cracks caused this break up. No tail, no ability to fly.
So it’s the Ozone Hole and Global Warming (and Bush’s) fault.
How would that result in fragments over a large area?
Bomb or missile larger than MANPADS.
I don’t know. A plane falling out of the sky under suspicious circumstances in that part of the world. Call me cynical, but as much as I want to believe it was mechanical in nature, I suspect otherwise and think the plane was intentionally brought down.
Once a pressurized cabin causes the compromised internal fractures to burst, a bomb-like break-up can occur. I believe this is what happened.
“No possible cause” for the breakup.
I could think of a half dozen, but almost every one of them involves some form of sabotage, or action by an external agent of some kind.
Some things can be ruled out immediately. No co-pilot gone bonkers, locking the rest of the aircrew out of the cabin, and shoving control yoke full forward, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” until the aircraft smacked into the surface.
1. Our plane was crap
2. We allow bombs to be placed on planes in our country.
3. We wuz shot down.
Do the Egyptians have a BUK missile system? “Accidentally” supplied by the Russians?
Japan Airlines Flight 123 same thing happened
Bribes are common flying in/out of Sharm El Shek.
Back in ‘99 I had reservations and paid tickets and still had to bribe someone to get on the plane
4. Nothing to do with terrorism or the fact that we are bombing in Syria.
If the tail broke off, you lose all control, the plane could flop around and tumble in all three axes. This could cause the entire plane to break apart and scatter over a wide area, I suppose.
As for what the initial cause of the breakup was, I suspect we'll never know. Rumors will be thick in the air, I'm sure.
Same happened to me in Nairobi with PIA (Perhaps I ARRIVE) aka “Paki Airways”.
Their on-board curry was excellent.
Then see number 1. Our planes are crap.
I suppose a analysis of the pieces might reveal if there was an explosion of some sort. Of course it depends on what people decide to reveal to the public.
The plane is pressurized. It is held together by a very thin aluminum skin stretched over ribs. Break that skin almost anywhere and there is a sudden, progressive cascade of events, each worse than the one before it. Ripples caused by the air current flow down the sides causing even more breakup. From start to finish is typically very short.
Survival of the aircraft from events like the flight that lost a large upper fuselage section as it approached Hawaii are rare. If I recall that was a Boeing and Boeing tends to design with a belt and suspenders approach. I believe this was an Airbus. Airbus has had more of this type structural failure probably because the basic design philosophy is looser.
Remember the Maine..
Ha!!
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