Remotely Detonated?

One thing has puzzled me ever since Russian Airbus A321 fell from the sky....

How could ISIS have timed the explosion and spiraling of the Russian jetliner (if, indeed, the video below is authentic)?



Could an explosive device have been remotely detonated by someone who brought aboard a carry-on bag? 

After all, remote detonation by someone aboard would have ensured that an unforeseen flight delay would not have interfered with ISIS's making of the propaganda film, which must have required that the videocam was in place.

The passenger detonating the device in the cargo hold would have been following the flight path on one of those screens showing the exact flight path of the airplane in real time.

Another reason that I've been thinking along these lines: the recent uptick in screening measures of both passengers and carry-on bags.

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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World War III, anyone?

The Islamic State group affiliate in Egypt has claimed it downed the aircraft, but has not said how it might have done so. 

Cairo and Moscow, however, have denied any possible terrorism link in the incident, one of the deadliest Airbus crashes in the past decade. 

This evening, the prime minister's office said: 'The black box was recovered from the tail of the plane and has been sent to be analysed by experts.' 

It added that more than 45 ambulances have been dispatched to the crash site, with rescuers having recovered 129 victims' bodies so far. 

The jet, which was leased by a Russian airline and carrying package holiday passengers back to St Peterburg in northern Russia, plummeted to the ground less than 25 minutes after it took off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik. 

It crashed in the Hassana area, south of Arish, officials said. 

Security forces discovered the plane wreckage in a remote mountainous area in a region containing many ISIS-affiliated terrorists. 

Ismail told reporters experts will 'start examining the information in the plane's black box, and based on this we will study the causes of the crash'. 

He also expressed scepticism about ISIS's claim that it carried out the attack in response to Russian strikes in Syria. 

The ISIS statement read: 'The soldiers of the caliphate succeeded in bringing down a Russian plane in Sinai.' 

But Islami claimed: 'Experts have affirmed that technically planes at this altitude cannot be shot down, and the black box will be the one that will reveal the reasons for the crash,' according to state news agency MENA. 

Russian transport minister Maksim Sokolov also dismissed the ISIS claims. He said: 'This information cannot be considered accurate. 

We are in close contact with our Egyptian colleagues and aviation authorities in the country. At present, they have no information that would confirm such insinuations.' 

While the use of a surface-to-air missile has been dismissed as a potential cause of the crash by officials, an on-board bomb could be a possibility.