Prigozhin Plane Crash Analysis: Early Evidence Suggests Bomb, Sabotage | WSJ

Visual evidence from Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane crash in Russia supports early assessments from U.S. Intelligence, which say Prigozhin was killed in an assassination plot.

WSJ analyzed video footage of the plane crash that suggests the Prigozhin-owned Embraer Legacy 600 jet was bombed or sabotaged, rather than shot down.

0:00 Early intelligence suggests Prigozhin was assassinated
0:45 Plume of smoke
1:08 Intact plane and fuel spraying
1:53 Wreckage pattern

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[fariseudoagreste]

it doesn't seem like you need to be an expert to come to the conclusion that the guy was murdered

[yvesgomez]

So it's a bomb that they putin the plane ?

[malikhampton]

Doing what he did, I wouldn't have stepped foot on a plane for at least the next 5 years!

[joe.oneill]

Putin is working on his "Ukraine did it" explanation.

[zeeshandogar]

Imagine being a passenger on a plane and Prigozhin walks in.

[acebubbles]

“falling with no control” tends to happen when the entire wing is missing

[lilith]

Pregozni be like in his last moment: Shouigo! Gerasimov!

[karlos]

He had about 30 seconds to think about his life choices.

[stevetaylor]

At 45 seconds on the right of the picture there is a smoke trail and an object dropping to the 4 o'clock position of the screen. I am surprised the commentator didn't explain that! Also no-one has explained why the apparently two top men in Wagner were on the same plane.

[bosco]

If I worked on this flight and I seen Prigozhin get on I would have quit on the spot.

[AkashSingh-ukub]

0:42 Where can I buy these lights for my backyard ?

[thegood]

embraers are fantastically reliable planes. Anyone who THOUGHT this was an actual accident needs to eliminate themselves from all future rational conversation with intelligent adults. This thing was sabotage from the second anyone who viewed the video and knew the history would and did know.

[postergmail]

The plane was downed by a second shooter from the grassy knoll. You’ll see a man with an umbrella and a babushka woman if you watch the video closely. I personally don’t think a single shooter could have got all the shots off in that time frame.

[fernandoantunez]

WSJ seems to have some amnesia: they forgot the Malasya airplane shot over Ukraine with similar consequences to this case.
Isn't it❓

[Tn_jed]

The video of the detached wing and landing gear argues against an onboard explosive hidden in the landing gear. If so, how is the landing gear, including air filled tires, still intact?

[christophersalmon]

He would've probably been safer just taking a regular commercial flight to St. Petersburg.

[raidenkanashie]

ANY CCTV FOOTAGES OR FILM CONFIRMING THAT PRIGOZEN BOARDED THAT PLANE? WAGNER TOC CAN SAY FO THAT.

[papasquat]

If you're going to be the head of a hated mercenary organization, you should fly Cirrus with ballistic recovery. A parachute may have saved this brutal warlord.

[joshbribiesca]

I’m so glad I live in a country where people with powerful information about important people/events don’t suspiciously die… oh wait.

[humanguu]

Everyone is plane expert in this comment section.