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[–] Parabola@lemmy.world 108 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yes that’s how time works. Before something happens, the thing hasn’t yet changed..

[–] SuperSecretThrowaway@lemmynsfw.com 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No shit. It was originally and explicitly stated in the initial reporting that the plane was shot down.

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

witnesses reported seeing missile trails right away, and hearing 2 loud pops.. but they absolutely will do everything they can to hide that fact, because they are cowards who hide from everything..

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I mean you can see the remnants of the missile contrail in that clip that was posted on streamable. 100% shot down.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s video footage of missile trace remnants intercepting the plane’s flight path. That thing got shot down.

What’s less clear is whether prigozhin got offed, or if it was more along the lines of him faking his death.

[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How do we know that’s “the” plane rather than some rando?

Not arguing anything here. I’m genuinely curious.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At the end

Online flight tracker Flightradar24 last recorded the position of the aircraft at 3:11 p.m. GMT, before the crash. Jamming or interference in the area probably slowed the collection of further location data.

Other data continued for nine minutes. Flightradar24 said the jet went thorough a series of ascents and descents of a few thousand feet each over 30 seconds before its final, disastrous plunge. Flightradar24 received its final data on the jet at 3:20 p.m.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

If you look at the video from the ground you can see it's missing an entire wing and it's spinning and fluttering back and forth weirdly as it falls towards the ground.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If your airplane suffers sudden decompression and you get sucked out a window, would it technically be a defenestration?

[–] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe but might be a stretch. Defenestration refers to the act of throwing someone/something out of a window. We have to consider the pressure "throwing" instead of sucking you out, which might be acceptable since the pressure inside the plane is greater and ends up pushing you out of the window in it's escape. From the perspective that you're sucked out of the window, it doesn't seem like the definition would apply.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

This guy defenestrates.

[–] Millie@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll believe it in a couple of years if he doesn't turn up having faked his death again.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"After a failed orbital adjustment resulted in a negative perigee, Wagner leadership has ceased its existence as a result of a collision with the Earth litosphere", according to Rocosmos Airlines.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

All part of Russia's Special Assisted Descent Operation.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jesus Christ that website is literal pop up as cancer.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

what you need my friend is https://noscript.net/

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had no popus using uBlock Origin on Firefox

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was using sync and it wasn’t so much pop ups as continually loading more bs

[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] UnlimitedRumination@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They should have built it to vigorous aviation engineering standards.

[–] zik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Or the wing did

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It rapidly stopped being fine

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It got shoved out a hotel window