(Dan Tri) – Some experts commented on the cause of the plane crash carrying tycoon Wagner, after it emitted white smoke in the air and plummeted to the ground.
Debris at the scene of a plane crash in Russia (Photo: Reuters).
The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) announced on August 23 that a private Embraer Legacy 600 plane crashed in the Tver region while en route from Moscow to St.
The accident killed all 10 people on board, including believed to be tycoon Yevgeny Prigozhin and several high-ranking commanders of the Russian private military force Wagner.
According to military news website Avia Pro, investigators are leaning towards the hypothesis that the plane carrying tycoon Wagner crashed due to an explosion in the aircraft cabin.
Experts seem to reject the theory that the plane was shot down by air defense systems.
According to the source, one hypothesis is that the explosive device may have been placed in the tail of the plane, as evidenced by the fact that the tail of the plane fell several kilometers from the body.
Jeff Guzzetti, former director of the accident investigation agency of the Federal Aviation Administration and the US National Transportation Safety Board, said that a serious incident related to the plane’s structure occurred during the flight.
`An incident cannot happen unless there is some trigger factor. In the videos (shared), the plane does not look like it is flying, but is falling like a water bottle,` Mr. Guzzetti said.
Video of the moment the plane suspected of carrying boss Wagner crashed
After reviewing video of the plane crash, images of debris and flight tracking data, Mr. Guzzetti said that the evidence showed `signs of an explosion on the plane`.
He commented that a number of scenarios could have occurred that would have caused a plane flying at a stable speed and altitude to suddenly fall and break into pieces.
Sidney Dekker, director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, said it was unlikely the plane crashed due to a technical problem because the wing appeared to be torn off the main body of the plane.
According to the Washington Post, images of the accident scene and satellite images show that the plane’s debris fell in at least two separate areas, with the cockpit and tail about 1.5km apart.
CS expert `Raghu` Raghuraman, based on available evidence, the catastrophic damage in the Russian plane crash may not have been caused by a missile.
Some other experts also said they saw no evidence of a surface-to-air missile launch or a missile impact causing the plane to crash.
Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said holes in one of the plane’s wings could have been caused by an explosion but there was not enough evidence to confirm.