Monday, November 02, 2015

Downed Russian Flight Airbus A321


According to Russian airline official rules out technical error as cause of crash, a Washington Post article dated November 2, 2015:
MOSCOW— The Russian airliner that broke apart in mid-flight over the Sinai peninsula was not caused by any malfunction or pilot error, the airline said Monday, deepening the mystery over the disaster but leaving open probes into some kind of plot or attack.

The latest statements in Moscow gave no indications of the direction of the investigations into Saturday’s crash that killed all 224 aboard. But Alexander Smirnov, deputy general director of the airline, insisted the tragedy could only be the result of some “mechanical impact on the aircraft.”...
Read the rest HERE.

This morning, the reports now contain the words "external factors."

What external factors?

Is a bomb on board considered to be an external factor?

Please, God, not a surface-to-air missile that can take out a flight at cruising altitude!

Such a weapon in the hands of Islamic terrorists has ramifications that I can't bear to think about!

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