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Originally posted by Looking_Glass
Originally posted by FIFIGI
1. Translation is fine. I speak russian - the only thing, really, which could be interpreted differently is the "They will never get away with it". I would translated it like this - "Fu*king hell, suck my di*k."
It would seem highly unlikely that an individual at a horrific crash site would randomly shout out: "Fu*king hell, suck my di*k."
Originally posted by LiveForever8
reply to post by Obinhi
Apparently that was a hoax perpetrated to give the conspiracy theory more legitamacy. The journalist is very much alive.
Originally posted by Obinhi
Given what I do for a living, I feel that I should point out that this plane was probably equiped with countermeasues and had a small armory on board. If it had cracked open looters could have gotten at weapons. Or the ammo, flare, chaff and carts could be cooking off. I cant see guns in the running peoples hands but then the video is grainy.
Originally posted by ^anubis^
reply to post by Obinhi
The camera man did die a few days later, he was stabbed in the neck. I cant remember but he survived and at the hospital he was unplugged or stabbed again and died there. not sure but they don't know how.
The New York Times piece on the crash is full of hints that the plane, a Soviet-built Tupolev TU-154, could be to blame. It even notes that Polish officials have "repeatedly requested" that the presidential fleet be replaced. The BBC was even quicker in its rush to judgement: the lead item on the BBC's website earlier today was headlined "Crash focusses attention on Tupolev-154."
The Atlantic's James Fallows says "not so fast." Fallows, a prominent journalist who also flies small planes, is always the first person I read when there's an air accident. He almost always has something interesting to say about what happened, and he usually turns out to be right. This time, he says, "it probably wasn't the airplane":
it takes a very long time to be sure about the "accident chain" that led to any given aviation disaster. This is an term of art for describing the whole cascading sequence of bad judgment, bad circumstances, and bad luck that eventually leads to a disaster. It is called a chain because breaking a link at any point will usually avert the tragedy.
But here is a line of initial speculation that I bet will lead nowhere and should be played down: suggesting that the airplane itself, a Russian-made Tupolev-154 that will probably be described as some aging rustbucket overdue for replacement, was the "cause" of the crash....
Originally posted by Helmkat
Originally posted by ^anubis^
reply to post by Obinhi
The camera man did die a few days later, he was stabbed in the neck. I cant remember but he survived and at the hospital he was unplugged or stabbed again and died there. not sure but they don't know how.
Proven hoax. Hes alive and well.