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Why isn't this plane explosion being talked about?

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ToBeOrNotToBee · 28/11/2024 15:28

On Monday a DHL plane 'crashed' in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Video footage shows an explosion as it comes into land.
Nothing in the news over here (UK) about it despite the death of one and 3 others seriously injured.
Previous incidents with DHL cargo planes in the last few months involving explosives being found in packages going onto planes (Leipzig) or after being unloaded (Birmingham) with the blame firmly being pointed at Russia.
This should be headline news for God's sake. We are definitely being kept in the dark.

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DrinkFeckArseBrick · 28/11/2024 17:26

This wasn't a bigger news story because there were few casualties.

It's normal for a plane that crashes to catch fore / explode on impact

It can't be linked to anything else until there is evidence to link it to anything else, and to link it to Russian explosives at this stage would be speculation and bad journalism

Circumferences · 28/11/2024 17:29

Boeing can't carry on a this rate.
They are suffering from a sickness at CEO level who have prioritized "DEI" over actual engineering capabilities, and people are dying (or getting stuck alone in space for weeks) as a result.
This is yet another catastrophe.
Heads need to roll at Boeing.

XWKD · 28/11/2024 17:32

You're being kept in the dark? By whom?

notimagain · 28/11/2024 17:39

I’m an ex-commercial pilot and TBH I don’t normally like speculating about this type of event but just this once I will - It’s not really been talked about that much for the following reasons:

The accident happened I think early Monday AM.

Once the information freely available in the public domain (ATC radio conversations, Some CCTV footage, downlinked ADS-data) started to make it on to social media late Monday it became fairly obvious to anyone with any expertise or experience in serious aviating that this looked very very much like being down to human error (thinking is it might have been mainly down to what is known as a high energy/rushed approach that wasn’t abandoned) rather than a hostile act or because the aircraft was a Boeing…

Of course the investigators late Monday were rightly not willing to rule anything in or out (they don’t do that in the first few hours), so that allowed some of the MSM to run with headlines such as “terrorism not ruled out”….it also didn’t help that at least one German politician used the accident to indulge in some grandstanding.

the investigating team Europe side don’t tend to do daily reports to the MSM, but there should be an interim report in the next few days or weeks, it’ll take several months, maybe a year plus for a full report..but nothing so far I’ve seen or heard points to anything other than this being an accident.

Hope that provides some insight.

BocaChica · 28/11/2024 17:45

"Boeing can't carry on a this rate."

Do you know that the plane concerned was built more than 30 years ago ?

notimagain · 28/11/2024 18:10

For anyone who understands the basics and wants to look deeper into this subject Juan Browne (current 777 pilot in the States) has done one of his as usual excellent videos covering what we know so far from public sources and what might have gone on.

He’s usually very good, just wish he’s learnt to pronounce Vilnius without an extra “i” for this one:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Z0IyFzs_U

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