A video taken onboard the Baku-Grozny flight before its crash in Kazakhstan shows visible damage to the wing. After the crash, marks on the fuselage suggest the plane may have been hit by ground fire



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  2. I wouldn’t feel safe if I was in a plane flying over or near Russia these days.

  3. The box under the wing is a cover for the flap mechanism. Although damage to this seems scary it does not effect the flight too much.

  4. Good lord, it’s a miracle that some survived the crash considering that it was already a miracle that they managed to stay up with all that damage seen in the two videos.

    I’m sure it was a FF incident and being unable to distinguish civilian from enemy seems to be a russian speciality.

  5. That’s what happens when you have potato brained alcoholics running AA systems in russia.
    Malaysia flight 17.
    Korean Air flight 007
    And now this one.

  7. I really hope everyone who survived gets the help they’re more than owed. Theres no way you come out of surviving that the same.

  9. The more I learn about the crash, the more I’m straight up impressed with the pilots. It’s a miracle they got +50% survival rate by how that crash video looks like

  10. This just breaks my heart knowing over half are going to die.

  11. As more and more Russian Federation efforts are put into the “Special” Ukraine debacle, more and more pieces of highly technical things will rattle off.

    I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that this is not the result of conflict directly…..but indirectly, damn right. One of many symptoms on display of failing government, that violated rule 1.

    Don’t do stupid.

  12. Oh shit, this is a new one. Some good shots of the shrapnel holes as it went though the plane.

    I’m surprised I don’t see blood splatter from that. I wonder if they got lucky enough that the shrapnel didn’t hit anything living at least.

  13. Second video confirms shrapnel hit body and tail real bad

  16. I’m interested in seeing the passenger list now. There was clearly an attempt to shoot this down. The only question remaining is why. Classic Russian incompetence? Or was one of the Russian citizens on board someone who the FSB or Don-don thought needed to die in what could be shrugged off as a tragic accident?

  20. Wouldn’t be the first time Russia has shot down a civilian passenger plane. I imagine they’ll also get a mild rebuking for this one too.

  21. I took a domestic flight in Russia years ago and it was a very scary experience.

  22. Pictures of the tail fins show clear shrapnel damage from a surface-air missile.

    Thanks again, Russian air defense.

  23. I can’t wrap my head around people justifying saying “well Russia is on edge these days so yea, they might accidentally hit a commercial airliner”. Dude there’s no excuse for anything Russia has done since 2022. Are they going to fire upon anything that happens to fly over Russia now? Time for the world to unify and squash this bug. Enough with Russias state sponsored terrorism.

  26. I read this as “hit by ground”. I was like yeah that’s how plane crashes work

  28. Probably not ground fire that cause the plane to crash. The damage to the plane we see is just the pylon cover. It doesn’t do anything structurally or mechanically for the plane. More likely this was just some mechanical failure in the plane, unless someone knows more.

    EDIT: Ok I take that back. I saw some more pictures surface of the tail of the plane. There are clearly some type of damage to the tail that probably isn’t crash related. So maybe they did get hit by something.

  29. How did he end up in Kazakhstan? The Baku to Grozny route is not even close. Diverted after presumably being shot?

  30. The young lad with a fresh haircut thinking “I can’t believe it.”

  31. There is another video somewhere showing shrapnel holes in the rear fuselage. Definitely shot down!

  32. Just imagine the ordeal these people went through.. 70mn of fully knowing your chance of survival is getting closer to zero

  33. The video also indicates that there was decompression in the cabin, as the oxygen masks were deployed (birdstrikes don’t usually cause decompression)

  34. am i high or is this really cool? Like you come to reddit and saw this plane crash from a guy on the ground then you keep scrolling and you have inside footage, all within a few hours. technology can be cool sometimes

  36. I’m super confused because my national news network just said it was a birdstrike then a failed emergency landing. Did the plane take a missle hit?

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