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[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Planes are so unreliable nowadays.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] verysoft@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did 20,000 tons of kerosene spill into the environment?

[–] Omegamanthethird@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

The plane was taken outside of the environment.

[–] fiat_lux@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'Live updates' seems a little... unnecessary and even distasteful in this context, but ok.

I was wondering when he'd die though, there was no chance he was going to live a long life after the whole convoy to Moscow thing.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Bomb on board works plenty well.

[–] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess Putin checked off "downing plane" off his assassination bingo card

[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was that whole https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17 thing. Not sure how people forgot about this.

[–] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

That one was on his terrorisms bingo card. Not quite the same as assassination.

[–] MadsAboutYou@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure Poland already blamed Putin for downing a plane with a bunch of their top government officials some years back.

There's a questionable outlet on Twitter that claims the flight attendant noticed "Unusual Repairs" before takeoff.

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1694472469384437812

[–] DeForrest_McCoy@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Ok...yeah yeah.... moving on..... yawn