• Wilshire@sopuli.xyzOP
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      19 hours ago

      The ground speed rose very quickly before it disappeared, so it may have just defected from the air.

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          13 hours ago

          Can that specific plane even go near that fast without descending? The data may not be accurate, 900 mph in level flight is tough for a jet that size. Even at altitude.

          It’s possible the altitude is no longer accurate at the point on the speed graph that looks like a stall. But it’s also possible the speed graph is no longer accurate at some point. If they are both accurate, the data doesn’t make sense. It’s most likely that at the point of the stall where it hit 33k feet, since the altimeter never changes again despite the wild fluctuations in speed after, it stopped accurately being read.

          Maybe some electronics gave out at that point.

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      17 hours ago

      I remember a story back at the beginning of the war of a Russian helicopter pilot defecting. He had other Russian soldiers in the helicopter with him, but they couldn’t do anything because he was the only one there who knew how to fly it.

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      17 hours ago

      Defect? In a Russian plane? What are you talking about? Russian planes are solid and reliable

      /s if it wasn’t clear

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    17 hours ago

    What was it doing over that part of Ukraine in the first place? Taking this route seems like they were asking to get shot down.

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      17 hours ago

      Also they have these weird discontinuities, one over Syria, one north of Georgia and one long jump from over Ukraine deep into Russia.

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    18 hours ago

    plane going down in flames with alarms blaring

    Minister of Emergency Situations:

    “Worry not, Comrades! I am from the Ministry of Emergency Situations! We have trained and allocated many rubles to deal with this situation!”

    Pilot:

    “Sir, didn’t you spend all that money on a pleasure yacht that you filled with big tittied babushkas and spend all your time on it instead of training?”

    Minister:

    “Blyat.”