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https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/sum9122

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

I guess his irony dial exploded.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

The plane fell out of a window and shot itself in the back of the head 4 times on the way down while its arms were tied behind its back.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Loss of lift is Western propaganda. Greatest Russian planes never crash, they only land unexpectedly!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Special landing operation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But the altitude didn’t show a change

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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

/s if it wasn't clear

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Now we know what air defense doing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.