Source – channelstv.com
– Jeff Smith served extensively through Africa and the Middle East with the UNTSO and IAEA:
“The area that the Russian airbus 321 crashed in is patrolled by UNTSO (United Nations Treaty Supervision Organization) Jerusalem. I know it well from my days at UNTSO. It is classified as region:
1. No tanks, no anti aircraft, no jets etc. It is also patrolled by the Multi National Force. Directly in front of the jets flight path is an abandoned Egyptian / Israeli air force base with a very long runway. (Still used by the UN and the M.N.F). It is still listed on all aviation maps for that area and is an emergency use only runway.
Just past that is the Gaza airport. All easily within the glide path of a jet at 30,000 feet with no power. So the story is bullshit. It blew up or depressurized at altitude (30.000) and did a 3 G descent meaning that they still had flight control.
However bodies were reported to be found over a 5 kilometer area (3 mile) meaning it broke up at some point in flight during rapid descent. (Editor’s note: Like the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon did when they got below 10,000 feet…so that only debris took down the towers.)
So only an on board bomb did this or a Hawk or Patriot missile fire from the Israeli side of the border did this. Shoulder fired missiles only have a range of about 15,000 feet max. The minimum flight altitude for that air route is 24,000 feet. I have flown it many times in small UN turbo prop air planes.”
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/11/03/private-intel-the-russian-crash/
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Russian Plane Crash Investigation Points To Likely Explosion
The Russian plane crash in Egypt last weekend has been linked to likely explosion, but it is unclear whether a bomb or technical problems were to blame.
The Airbus A321M crashed on Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula shortly after taking off from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on its way to the Russian city of St Petersburg, killing all 224 persons on board.
Britain, which hosts Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi this week, said an explosive device may well have caused the crash, while CNN quoted a U.S. official as saying a bomb could have been planted on board by militants of Islamic State or one of its affiliates.
“It is believed to be an explosion but what kind is not clear. There is an examination of the sand at the crash site to try and determine if it was a bomb,” an Egyptian source, who is close to the team investigating the black boxes, told Reuters.
“There are forensic investigations underway at the crash site. That will help determine the cause, to see if traces of explosives are found.”
Islamic State, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria and is battling the Egyptian army in the Sinai Peninsula, said again on Wednesday it brought down the airplane.
The group said it would eventually tell the world how it carried out the attack.
Egypt, a close ally of the United States and the most populous Arab country, dismissed a similar statement by the ultra-hardline group on Saturday.
Sisi has described Islamist militancy as an existential threat to the Arab world and the West and has repeatedly called for greater international efforts to combat the militants.
The office of British Prime Minister David Cameron, who was due to hold talks in London with Sisi on Thursday, said in a statement: “As more information has come to light we have become concerned that the plane may well have been brought down by an explosive device.”
Striking a similar note, the U.S. official quoted by CNN said: “There is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane.”
http://www.channelstv.com/2015/11/04/russian-plane-crash-investigation-points-to-likely-explosion/
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