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Poll: What caused the crash?
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Bomb
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5 41.67%
Missile
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Shitty Russki Maintenance
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Too Much Vodka in the Pilot
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Aliens
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Russian Plane Crash
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RE: Russian Plane Crash
The plot of speed and altitude strongly suggest the plane suddenly made an very abrupt climb out of level flight, lost majority of its airspeed, and then plummeted.

The climb was very abrupt, but it didn't gain the plane a whole lot of altitude before airspeed all bled away, and the plane plummeted.

If the plane was largely intact and its engines functioning normally When for whatever reason it suddenly climb from cruising speed and altitude to the point of stalling, then the plane would likely Experience large gain in altitude before the actual stall.    So I suspect whatever cause the plane to suddenly climb had already inflicted major damage to the aircraft's aerodynamic properties and/or caused the loss of one or both engines before the plane started to gain altitude and lose airspeed

So my guess is it is some form of catastrophic structural failure which initiated the crash.   Perhaps explosive decompression that resulted in the loss of major sections of the fuselage or tail surfaces.   It's too early to say if it was caused by a bomb.    But major structural failure like this has happened before to civil airliners before without there being a bomb.
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Russian Plane Crash - by Minimalist - November 2, 2015 at 5:14 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 2, 2015 at 5:17 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Jackalope - November 2, 2015 at 5:31 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Shining_Finger - November 2, 2015 at 5:18 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Minimalist - November 2, 2015 at 5:18 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Shining_Finger - November 2, 2015 at 5:44 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by vorlon13 - November 2, 2015 at 5:51 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 2, 2015 at 6:42 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Exian - November 2, 2015 at 7:01 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 2, 2015 at 7:11 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 2, 2015 at 7:53 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Thumpalumpacus - November 3, 2015 at 1:58 am
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by TheRocketSurgeon - November 2, 2015 at 9:03 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 2, 2015 at 9:38 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by TheRocketSurgeon - November 2, 2015 at 10:50 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Ludwig - November 3, 2015 at 3:23 am
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Ludwig - November 6, 2015 at 6:05 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by StuW - November 3, 2015 at 5:51 am
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 3, 2015 at 11:52 am
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Ludwig - November 3, 2015 at 2:07 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 3, 2015 at 2:21 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 3, 2015 at 3:57 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Ludwig - November 3, 2015 at 4:56 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by brewer - November 3, 2015 at 7:32 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 4, 2015 at 11:00 am
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Thumpalumpacus - November 6, 2015 at 7:02 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Minimalist - November 6, 2015 at 8:07 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 6, 2015 at 8:12 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Wyrd of Gawd - November 7, 2015 at 5:35 am
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by ReptilianPeon - November 7, 2015 at 10:13 am
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Thumpalumpacus - November 7, 2015 at 2:10 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Wyrd of Gawd - November 7, 2015 at 4:57 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by vorlon13 - November 7, 2015 at 12:40 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 7, 2015 at 12:59 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Minimalist - November 7, 2015 at 2:33 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Thumpalumpacus - November 7, 2015 at 3:23 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 7, 2015 at 3:57 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by vorlon13 - November 7, 2015 at 2:41 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 7, 2015 at 3:26 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Thumpalumpacus - November 7, 2015 at 4:29 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 7, 2015 at 4:32 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Minimalist - November 7, 2015 at 4:49 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 7, 2015 at 4:55 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 7, 2015 at 4:58 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Wyrd of Gawd - November 7, 2015 at 5:01 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by robvalue - November 8, 2015 at 4:12 am
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Wyrd of Gawd - November 8, 2015 at 5:01 am
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Thumpalumpacus - November 8, 2015 at 2:18 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 8, 2015 at 3:06 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Ludwig - November 8, 2015 at 3:26 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 8, 2015 at 4:01 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Ludwig - November 9, 2015 at 1:20 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 9, 2015 at 2:56 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 9, 2015 at 3:02 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Minimalist - November 8, 2015 at 3:53 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by LastPoet - November 8, 2015 at 2:27 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by vorlon13 - November 8, 2015 at 3:14 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Minimalist - November 9, 2015 at 2:45 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 9, 2015 at 2:55 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 9, 2015 at 2:57 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Minimalist - November 9, 2015 at 3:00 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 9, 2015 at 3:03 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 9, 2015 at 3:33 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Minimalist - November 9, 2015 at 3:38 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by abaris - November 9, 2015 at 3:57 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 9, 2015 at 10:11 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Wyrd of Gawd - November 11, 2015 at 5:31 am
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Anomalocaris - November 11, 2015 at 6:51 am
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by paulpablo - November 17, 2015 at 2:29 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Minimalist - November 9, 2015 at 10:47 pm
RE: Russian Plane Crash - by Minimalist - November 17, 2015 at 2:30 pm

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