A Russian plane of the Ministry of Emergency Situations went off course and disappeared from tracking near Kharkiv. (imgur.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/sum9122

No explanation yet for what caused this.

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[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 33 points 3 months ago

I guess his irony dial exploded.

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Did someone just defect?

[-] LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz 33 points 3 months ago

The ground speed rose very quickly before it disappeared, so it may have just defected from the air.

[-] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

The plane fell out of a window and shot itself in the back of the head 4 times on the way down while its arms were tied behind its back.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Loss of lift is Western propaganda. Greatest Russian planes never crash, they only land unexpectedly!

[-] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Special landing operation

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

But the altitude didn’t show a change

[-] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Can that specific plane even go near that fast without descending? The data may not be accurate, 900 mph in level flight is tough for a jet that size. Even at altitude.

It's possible the altitude is no longer accurate at the point on the speed graph that looks like a stall. But it's also possible the speed graph is no longer accurate at some point. If they are both accurate, the data doesn't make sense. It's most likely that at the point of the stall where it hit 33k feet, since the altimeter never changes again despite the wild fluctuations in speed after, it stopped accurately being read.

Maybe some electronics gave out at that point.

[-] School_Lunch@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I remember a story back at the beginning of the war of a Russian helicopter pilot defecting. He had other Russian soldiers in the helicopter with him, but they couldn't do anything because he was the only one there who knew how to fly it.