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[ultratruman]

MOSCOW — Senior officials at Metrojet, the charter airline company whose Airbus passenger plane crashed in Egypt over the weekend, killing all 224 people aboard, on Monday ruled out any technical failure or human error on the part of the airline in the catastrophe.

“We absolutely exclude the technical failure of the plane, and we absolutely exclude pilot error or a human factor,” Alexander A. Smirnov, a former pilot who is now the airline’s deputy director for aviation, said at a packed news conference in Moscow.

Mr. Smirnov said that the crash could have been caused by “an external impact on the plane,” but he said an investigation would determine the cause.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/world/europe/sinai-peninsula-russian-plane-crash.html?_r=0

 

[mrklaw]

Doesn't that seem just a little quick to rule out those things? Don't air crash investigations often take weeks/months to figure out what happened? People seem to be in a rush to blame external factors in this case.

 

[ultratruman]

Doesn't that seem just a little quick to rule out those things? Don't air crash investigations often take weeks/months to figure out what happened? People seem to be in a rush to blame external factors in this case.

So many twists in this story.

 

[Somnid]

Operator of crashed plane says it's not their fault. You don't say? That's why we have 3rd party investigators.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Doesn't that seem just a little quick to rule out those things? Don't air crash investigations often take weeks/months to figure out what happened? People seem to be in a rush to blame external factors in this case.

Let's speak conspiracy theory here *wears tinfoil hat*

Russia tested their missiles on MH17 to continue the war on Ukraine and blame them in order to divert bad press on them, but that backfired because they shot down a Malaysian Airline aircraft, a company that already was going through tough turmoil with no Russian influence.

Now, Russia has perfected this art and wants to continue the war on Syria/ISIS and shot down (via a bomb this time) a plane of a small Russian fleet, so they can directly influence what is revealed in press conference.

*tinfoil off*

 

[killer_clank]

I'm very very suspicious of this airline. You can't rule it out being your fault after 2 days with little evidence.