[HN Gopher] Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Az...
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       Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of Azerbaijan
       E190tragedy
        
       Author : bratao
       Score  : 73 points
       Date   : 2024-12-25 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.euronews.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.euronews.com)
        
       | echelon wrote:
       | There are videos of the crashed tail section that show shrapnel
       | damage.
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1hm0ijm/another_a...
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       | There are videos filmed from within the cabin by the passengers
       | showing shrapnel piercing clothing, limbs, seats, and more before
       | the plane crashes.
       | 
       | https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1871952188383309872 (Holes
       | in life vests)
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/world24x7hr/comments/1hm6prb/seats_...
       | (Shrapnel damage)
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrifyingAsFuck/comments/1hm4mf0/f...
       | (Survivor before the plane crashes.)
       | 
       | (There are better videos, but I can't seem to find them again.)
       | 
       | There are reports that the plane was forced to divert course and
       | fly over water after being hit. They were close to landing but
       | were forced to reroute in the middle of their emergency.
       | 
       | More videos:
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrifyingAsFuck/comments/1hlx7tc/c...
       | (Crash. Other videos from other angles exist elsewhere online.)
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/world24x7hr/comments/1hm2ynv/shocki...
       | (Tail section after crash)
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/1hlxm7i/surviv...
       | (Survivors exiting the tail section)
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/world24x7hr/comments/1hm7poq/miracl...
       | (Survivor who filmed prior to the crash.)
       | 
       | I'll edit my comment with sources shortly.
        
         | jiggawatts wrote:
         | A turbine blade or a few coming off can have the same effect as
         | a bomb going off near the plane.
         | 
         | The pieces would tear through the plane like shrapnel from a
         | weapon.
         | 
         | Military anti air missiles tend to use continuous rods to slice
         | planes in half instead of fragmentation warheads that leave
         | small holes. The aim is to sever control lines, not merely to
         | puncture.
        
           | mrtksn wrote:
           | Turbine blades puncturing the tail section? I'm not
           | convinced.
           | 
           | https://a.dropoverapp.com/cloud/download/8a578eea-0de8-4504-.
           | ..
           | 
           | Unconfined engine failures do the fuselage damage in the
           | proximity of the engine: https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc
           | e/article/pii/S187775032...
        
           | penultimatename wrote:
           | Several anti-aircraft systems can and do use fragmentation
           | warheads. The BUK that shot down MH17 used one and the impact
           | patterns are strikingly similar. Take a look at the
           | "Reconstruction" section in this:
           | https://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-
           | text/ntsb/miscell...
        
           | morkalork wrote:
           | Here's another incident you can compare against:
           | 
           | https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1hm0nf7/an_il22_t.
           | ..
        
         | quink wrote:
         | This whole thing feels more and more like a terrible
         | nightmarish mash-up between MH17 and UA232. Every indication so
         | far is that the flight crew here are absolute heroes for
         | bringing down the plane as well as they did and it's likely
         | that they should be remembered as heroically saving these
         | lives, even if not their own.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
        
       | llamaimperative wrote:
       | Russia: "Why does the world view us as either malicious or
       | incompetent?"
       | 
       | Also Russia: Consistently fails to shoot down military aircraft
       | and missiles, consistently shoots down passenger jets,
       | consistently lies about both
        
         | pinewurst wrote:
         | It's not 'either or', it's 'and'.
        
           | djaouen wrote:
           | I'm not saying they are not both, but there is definitely
           | another reason lol
        
         | LtWorf wrote:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itavia_Flight_870
        
           | quink wrote:
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
           | would surely be a bit more on the nose.
           | 
           | Especially since rt.com's only above-the-fold mention is
           | "Russia-bound airliner crashes in ex-_Soviet_ state (VIDEO)".
           | Nope, they don't need to use the word 'Kazakhstan', the 50%
           | longer, much less descriptive but much more telling 'ex-
           | Soviet state' is the one they're chosen.
        
         | mmastrac wrote:
         | Not a great couple of decades for civilian air travel near
         | Russian airspace, that's for sure.
        
       | lutusp wrote:
       | > " ... as the Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft was approaching to
       | land as scheduled."
       | 
       | Not as scheduled. The aircraft was diverted because of
       | unacceptable weather at its primary destination --
       | https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwl1e6895qo : "The plane was
       | en route to Grozny in Russia but it was diverted due to fog, the
       | airline told the BBC."
       | 
       | Just saying, not excusing a hostile takedown, if that's what
       | happened.
       | 
       | Diversion due to weather is a possibility anticipated by pilots,
       | who normally carry extra fuel to accommodate the possibility of a
       | diversion.
       | 
       | Ironically, because of the advent of drone attacks, a small
       | aircraft like the Embraer 190 is _more_ likely to be mistaken for
       | hostile, compared to a full-size airliner.
        
       | zmachinaz wrote:
       | Just zooming into the tail section photo one can find on main
       | stream media shows very suspicious signs of possible shrapnel hit
       | ...
        
       | NotYourLawyer wrote:
       | The orcs sure do love murdering innocent people.
        
         | paganel wrote:
         | The "orcs" being who?
        
           | 05 wrote:
           | > Orc (Cyrillic: ork, romanised: ork), plural orcs (Russian
           | and Ukrainian: orki), is a pejorative commonly used by many
           | Ukrainians to refer to a Russian soldier participating in the
           | Russian-Ukrainian War and Russian citizens who support the
           | aggression of Russia against Ukraine.
           | 
           | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(slang)
        
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