[freeandfreezing]

How many jet aircraft get shot out of the sky and the wings and right stabilizer remain in factory position?

How many fighter jets end up in the middle of a farm field in pieces and on fire? Is that a standard way that Russians land their aircraft?

[M Kehoe]

Some pilot is on the hook for about a billion rubles (plus or minus).

Pilot might not see any pay for a few years (plus or minus).

5.56mm

[Right Brother]

It certainly looks like a Sukhoi. But it looks like it was parked when hit, not shot down.

[Justa]

“How many jet aircraft get shot out of the sky and the wings and right stabilizer remain in factory position?

“How many fighter jets end up in the middle of a farm field in pieces and on fire? Is that a standard way that Russians land their aircraft?

You both make excellent points. That’s why I’m leaning towards Insurance scam.

[Right Brother]

Also, the rich, soft earth of that “farm field” has barely been displaced by the wreckage. You don’t find that unusual for a high speed breakup? I guess the laws of physics have been altered in the Ukraine.

[redgolum]

Somewhere in Ukraine is a annoyed farmer looking some someone to take that off his wheat field.

Or let it set till harvest and worry about it then.