That's fine Henry, off topic is fine if there's no other news or on topic
chatter, keeps us old folk feeling alive and useful.
Yeah, war is hell and Putin is a war criminal who's lost his marbles..Scary.
Thank you,
Ken
On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 7:27 AM Henry Vanderbilt <hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Very likely collateral. Airport was taken by Russian heliborne forces at
start of this mess, taken under fire by local Ukrainian forces, then
retaken in a day-long back-and-forth battle by a Ukrainian mobile reaction
force, then later re-retaken by the Russian ground advance from the north.
LOTS of shooting going on in the course of all that.
I have to wonder why it wasn't flown out of harm's way before all this.
Under maintenance? Possibly insufficient warning though - the airport
seizure was apparently an opening attempt at grabbing an airhead near the
capital, so it may well have been one of the opening moves of the war.
And, beyond the lesson of avoiding wars near your large and
hard-to-replace space assets, this is massively off topic. Sorry!
Over-answered the question, yes.
Henry
On 3/4/2022 2:11 AM, roxanna Mason wrote:
Question, was she the target or collateral damage?
Ken
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 9:49 PM Paul Breed <PaulBreed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Link down, here is a mirror,
#RIPMriya
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YdAavcMrrG8
Paul Breed
858.882.7967
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 12:01 PM Steve Traugott <stevegt@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Wondering how many projects were depending on that aircraft for future
transport and what workarounds they are going to be able to come up with.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 10:00 AM Michael Clive <zeinin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Far from the worst tragedy of this conflict, but certainly a
poignant one for us aviation geeks.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:57 AM George Herbert <george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
You can see her burned out airframe, part of the nose and an upturned
wing and eng being the only recognizable parts remaining from this angle.
She’s gone.
https://twitter.com/georgewherbert/status/1499351024322035717?s=21
-george
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