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[Sheb]

Well, a bomb would make sense I guess. Planes do not spontaneously break down in mid-air. But it doesn't really explain why the pilot asked to be diverted to Cairo first.

[martinuzz]

Slightly surprised Russian media isn't speculating about it being revenge of the Netherlands yet.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Well, a bomb would make sense I guess. Planes do not spontaneously break down in mid-air. But it doesn't really explain why the pilot asked to be diverted to Cairo first.

I think there was no any request from pilot. Can't remember any credible source claiming that,

[martinuzz]

That was reportedly coming from sources inside local air traffic control, in news articles published the day of the incident. It was refuted / disappeared from the headlines a day later.

[sluissa]

Yeah, I remember the radio call reports that just sort of disappeared. Was on the major news networks over here at first but then they just shut up about it and said "NO DISTRESS CALL!" Kinda bothers me.

[Vilanat]

That was reportedly coming from sources inside local air traffic control, in news articles published the day of the incident. It was refuted / disappeared from the headlines a day later.

The same sources also claimed that the flight had left Egypt's air space and had contacted the Cypriot air traffic control (And later maintained that it also entered Turkey's air space). "An official from the Egyptian aviation ministry".

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Egypt can lose many tourists (read money) if it was a bomb. They will be the last to admit it

[scriver]

Yeah, wasn't the Egyptian turist industry hit pretty hard by a series of terror attacks not too many years ago?

[nenjin]

Yeah, wasn't the Egyptian turist industry hit pretty hard by a series of terror attacks not too many years ago?

That and all the civil and political unrest of the last couple years.

[sprinkled chariot]

If soviet medicine could keep brezhnev and Yeltsin alive in their shitty health state.
Then Putin with all that do sports be man stuff combined with achievments of modern medicine can gain some sort of immortality.

[Loud Whispers]

Yeah, wasn't the Egyptian turist industry hit pretty hard by a series of terror attacks not too many years ago?

I think the Arab spring had a bit more of an effect, there were places you weren't legally allowed to set foot

[smjjames]

I think those reports of some sort of SoS call were just from the initial confusion about what was going on, there was similar confusion from the Malaysia Air flight.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

If soviet medicine could keep brezhnev and Yeltsin alive in their shitty health state.
Then Putin with all that do sports be man stuff combined with achievments of modern medicine can gain some sort of immortality.

There are a conspiracy theory in Russia that Putin was killed by FSB in early 2000s and replaced by a double.

[Vilanat]

Russia announces plan to ground all boeing 737s in the country

Why, giving the timing, this looks to be more of a political move than actual concern for safety?

[Sheb]

To me it seems more like the wheels of bureaucracy slowly turning, and the news getting attention only because of the recent crash.