According to the technician who fled to the West Putin seldom travels by plane. The guy who traveled ahead to set up communications for Putin said that often Putin would arrive at an airport and be seen to board a plane. But the plane took off without him as a decoy. Putin would then, often, travel to another destination by a special train that is disguised to look like a commercial train. If he had to fly, it would be from a different airport than the one he so publicly used as a decoy. Both Mao and the KGB eliminated people they considered to be dangerous by having the plane they were on “crash.” Knowing that makes the Chinese and the Russian leaders antsy about boarding a plane.
Putin flew to Sochi last night with multiple decoys. He didn’t fly on his normal plane last night, either. His regular planes were the ones sent to St Petersburg today. He left about the same time Lukashenko did.
You mean like Polish President Lech Kaczynski's aircraft with the entire Polish Leadership Cabinet on board being destroyed by explosives that were installed in the Wing Box when a major overhaul of the aircraft was done years before by the Russians ?
Factual Detailed Report of incident at Smolensk, Russia while on a trip to mark the 70th Anniversary of the massacre in the Katyn Forest Massacre in 2010. And before anyone starts a rebuttal, please read the entire.pdf report because I already have done so.