turkish C-130 crashes in azerbaijan
https://x.com/Archer83Able/status/1988230696754667910
That has to be a shootdown, how does a C130 end up in pieces like that in midair, those things are built like a brick shithouse
>>2058561The fire rishes
November 24th will be the ten year anniversary of Turkiye shooting down a Russian jet. I don't think they have retaliated for that yet, but the timing is interesting.Just for fun here is a circle with 100km radius from the last ADSB data point, and the Chechen town of Borzoy, where Russia was known to have a military site with S-400 missiles around the time of the shootdown of the passenger jet in 2024. As you can see, it's too far.There is some overlap with Russian territory here but as far as I can tell it's all wilderness. Perhaps you could set up a SAM site in those mountains but it would take some doing.
>>2058561imagine being conscious during that
>>2058608Actually I forgot about South Ossetia which is effectively Russian territory from a military point of view. Here's 100km from Tskhinvali, an alleged site for S-300. As you can see this doesn't work terribly well either. They would have to shoot the missile over Georgia's capital which would be hard to do discreetly.100km is of course a conservative estimate.
>>2058608>the timing is interestingYou just said the shootdown doesn't line up with anything
>>205861210 years to the month?
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It reminds me of the Atlas rocket explosion in Koyaanisqatsihttps://youtu.be/cJrtROuQFfk?t=137
>>2058609It looks like at least a few were ejected, maybe even a failed parachute deployment from one in middle of the shot a few seconds from the end, looks like a drogue deploys form one of the dots that were ejected. Might be just debris though. But fuck imagine if you had survived that alone.>>2058609Looks like one almost pulled a chute in time, imagine almost surviving then your chute failing on you, sheer adrenaline probably would have you passed out before impact hopefully.
>>2058993hitting the ground at terminal velocity is by no means a guarantee of a painless death. and most people in that plane hit the ground at quite a bit lower than terminal velocity. most likely there were at least a few people who survived for several hours after the crash
>>2058564Separation of onje or more prop blades from #2 engine. Slice through fuselage forward of wing.>The front fell offAerodynamic forces rip the aft fuselage off the center section. Center section is the strongest part of the airplane because the wing box is such a stiff structure.There was a similar crash of a USMC C-130T in 2017 or so. That aircraft was not all that old (built in 1993), but poor maintenance failed to inspect the corroded prop blades. The Turkish one, a C-130E, was built in 1968.Poor bastards didn't stand a chance.
