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dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Putin’s top military commander killed in Russian plane crash

www.independent.co.uk

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Putin’s top military commander killed in Russian plane crash

www.independent.co.uk

dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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The An-26 aircraft was conducting a scheduled flight over the peninsula
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  • redlemace
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    Stupid of him to take a window seat

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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    Oh no, what if they replace him with someone who knows how to do war?

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      I think all of them are long gone by now. He will be replaced with some other incompetent sycophant.

      • lad@programming.dev
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        I hope you’re right, but I’m afraid there’s always a chance of someone competent still existing in the ranks

    • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      That position is probably just saying “Yes/Sure/Of Course” to Putin.

      But if that “yes” doesn’t yield positive results, you’re put on a plane.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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        That’s the basic idea, but that hotdog mogul Prigozhin showed us there’s a whole secret menu of bad options as well!

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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      Their mercenaries know but they also killed prighozin and certainly aren’t letting them get near actual power after the half rebellion.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      Nah, that guy tried to fly a long time ago.

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    Not a appartment window ?

    • ExoticCherryPigeon@piefed.social
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      Wait for it, planes also have windows

      • jim_v
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        My plane has Arch, btw.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    “#2, you’re now #1. Good luck!”

    “Thanks, I guess…”

  • Sir_Simon_Spamalot
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    What an “unfortunate accident” ;)

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    They couldn’t find a building tall enough.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    Accident?

    • Forester@pawb.social
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      Internal purge most likely. Officially accident likely either equipment failure or pilot error or both.

      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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        The old fascist pension plan.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞
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    Sources at the crash site, speaking to state news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti, confirmed that the plane plummeted into a cliff face.

    CFIT, if true. Not defenestration this time, apparently.

    • Albbi@lemmy.ca
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      Running into a cliff face at speed is like falling out the window of a tall building, just rotated 90°.

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      Depending on how fast the impact and how pancaked the fuselage there is a strong chance it was a partial defonstration

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    The An-26 model, which has been in service since the late 1960s and is also used by airlines for freight, has been involved in a number of deadly crashes over the last decade.

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    That’s old news. Why write about it now?

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