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Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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[–] 95 points 3 years ago* (15 children)

honestly how could you be stupid enough to get on plane w/ that guy? this was the single most predictable event of the entire conflict.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    There's chance none of them were alive when the plane took off.
    The cool thing about plane crashes is that they make autopsies reeaally superficial.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Ah, right, the plane took off on its own, did it? Remind me again of the avionics in an Embraer? I didn't realise they had introduced communication with ATC, navigating the airport etc. completely automatically.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Dude I'm really not trying to build a conspiracy theory, all I'm saying is that it doesn't need a Machiavellian genius to put 10 corpses on a plane, fly it at altitude and jump off with a parachute before it crashes in the forest. It's like "Action movie 101".

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    But the plane was flying at cruise speed and there’s only two exits on the Legacy 600 - left side passenger door or over the wings. Either of of those gets a pilot sucked straight into an engine. A few people have parachuted off a passenger plane, but only through emergency exits behind the wings (with wing mounted engines) or the tail staircase.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (2 children)

    You obviously know about planes more than me.
    Still I agree with @RonJonGuaido that Prigozhin had no logic reason to be on a flight in Russian territory (other than being someway forced to do that)

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