The cause of the weekend crash of a Russian passenger airliner in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 224 people on board, remains unknown, but the suggestion that ISIS smuggled a bomb on board may be getting a boost today, with officials confirming a military satellite detected a mid-air heat flash from the plane before the crash.
The heat flash suggests some sort of explosion on board the plane, which could have been an accident, but also lends credence to ISIS’ claim of responsibility for downing the plane. Officials have yet to determine exactly how the plane crashed, and say it could take weeks.
Egyptian and Russian officials have been trying to downplay the chances of a bombing, but have offered no really good alternative explanation yet, while the Russian airline company has insisted there were no signs of technical failure or human error.
It is puzzling that the “heat flash” is only coming out now, four days after the crash, and experts say that if they’d swabbed the debris shortly after the crash they’d have been more readily able to identify explosive residue. This once again is likely to take weeks to sort out.
US intelligence sources with anonymous comments on terrorism lost any credibility they might ever have had many years ago.
Funny, I read an article suggesting it hit one of our drones and 5 hours later the feds decide to announce that they saw a heat flash.
This.
The article referred to comes from an essentially unknown website called News Doctors (sic!). As a matter of principle, I take everything I read on the American internet with a large grain of salt and this article is entirely speculative. For example, the author doesn't explain what a US drone was doing over Sinai, where it might have come from or why it was flying so high. The article is probably intended to take the heat off Putin (so to speak!).
So a US military satellite detected something unusual about that crash in the Sinai in real time. Strange that nothing was seen during the downing of MH-17 over Ukraine. Or maybe no satellites were looking during that brief war in Ukraine. (Note – the previous statement is an IQ test; if you agreed, your IQ is below 75.
Where did you get the idea that nothing was seen as regards MH17? Right from the start the US said it had been shot down by a missile. This time, what was detected allows of several explanations: a bomb, a fire in the cabin, an engine explosion and possibly others. But clearly no missile.
Since you censor me , you have seen my last donation. Seems you allow nothing that equates the Zionist as terrorist. Thanks, I will save $200 a year.
I take back what I said. I had posted in the Ron Paul article. Sorry about that.
No problem, "PEACE EVER AFTER." For the record, equating Zionism with terrorism does not violate our guidelines. We moderate for spam and actual hate language based on race, ethnicity, religion, etc., and sometimes stuff gets caught in our spam filters and has to be manually approved, but we like to think we do a decent job of telling the difference between political critiques and e.g. anti-antisemitism.
Mr. Thomas L. Knapp–please explain what Semitism is all about.
Nope.
How easy would it be to slip a small detonator into the fuel tanks? If that's as easy as I've been led to believe it is, a bomb would be overkill.
Not sure how a detonator inside the fuel tank would work, but I guess it's a bit more complicated to insert than a bomb. Given what's known, it doesn't look like the fuel tank exploded mid air, but something else that caused the separation of the plane's rear section.
I also don't go for the engine explosion theory. The wreckage I saw is in two parts: 1. roughly the rear quarter of the fuselage and 2. the rest of the fuselage. An exploding engine would more likely have taken off a wing or part of a wing. That would have brought the plane down but it would then have broken up on impact, not in midair, as seems to be established. A fire would probably not set off an explosion. It would have burned through the control cables under the cabin floor, making the plane uncontrollable, but, once again, not causing it to disintegrate in flight. An explosion seems the most likely, but that doesn't automatically mean a bomb.
of course it took four days to come out! gotta doctor the files to show
the airliner was downed by ukranian rebels (see, it's putin's fault!), and
NOT by missiles looted from khadaffi's aresenal and "bengazi'd" to
the "moderate" rebels.
Hmm…hadn't certain parties threatened a 'blowback' of terrorism on Russia for their activities in Syria?
The duration of the "flash" is among the critical elements whether the plane was brought down by a meteorite. A luminous meteorite trail might have been observed by Israeli radar but Israel may not want to report it. Even a very brief "heat" flash might have been caused by a meteorite hitting the plane. A meteorite impact cannot be excluded yet. Experts on meteorites and their impacts must be brought into the investigation.
I find it interesting that Uncle Sam apparently now has enough spy satellites to continuously monitor every square inch of the planet 24 hours a day. I suppose that's a capability no one wants to talk about.
I vaguely recall that two months after the "9-11" attacks, an Aribus fell on Queens, NY when the vertical stabilizer broke off. I'm guessing if that happened to the Russian jet, it would be obvious, and various "experts" would be talking about it..
Who is in charge of security at Sharm al sheik(sic)Israelis?Hmmmm….
This illustrates perfectly the corner Putin has painted himself into. Even if it turns out that the crash was an accident, all the speculation will damage Putin at home. I could see several Russian package tour operators and the charter airlines that work for them going bankrupt as Russian holidaymakers are scared off right at the start of the winter holiday season. Also, the fact that the airline is openly defying Putin is interesting. Recent events suggest that defying him is a significant danger to health so either the airline is very sure of its ground or it senses that Putin is in political trouble.