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Biscuits

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
The pilots of the accident flight reported bird strike and difficulties handling the plane's flight control systems.

From FlightRadar24, the pilots struggled with flying the E190 for more than an hour during the diversion and attempted emergency landing at Aktau, Kazakhstan before crashing.

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The pilots could've choose to land at their intended destination at Grozny, Russia (and it was closer than Aktau), but the weather conditions at their destination airport is reported to be foggy enough that the pilots chose to fly across the Caspian Sea for an attempted emergency landing at Aktau.

Seems like the bird strike (if the reports are true) did some serious damages to the aircraft's flight control systems (flaps, hydraulics, ailerons, etc). The pilots fought real hard to the very end, as evident by the repeated pull-up attempts by the pilots prior to the crash in the video below.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1871832343255847232

One thankful instance was that the plane crashed in a shallow dive instead of a nose dive, hence many of the passengers seated in the rear section survived as the tail section broke off upon impact and wasn't damaged by the subsequent explosion and fire.

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May the survivors recover from the crash, and may the deceased rest in peace.
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Bird strikes huh

I wonder if in the near future it is realistically possible to use the likes of those anti-drone microwave systems to scare off birds in a wide radius around airports?

No idea how realistic this idea is, not my field of expertise at all.
 
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tygyg1111 said:
"Not bargaining hard enough! I want hands and knees on the floor, kissing shoes type bargaining!"

And them promptly not change a thing
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Although I am not an extremist- Taiwan returned(lots of Taiwanese will be happy too)further dimunition of Japan SK and further irrelevance of India as a byproduct is a good start-what is that word we Chinese have?KOWTOW
 
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Biscuits said:
Bird strikes huh

I wonder if in the near future it is realistically possible to use the likes of those anti-drone microwave systems to scare off birds in a wide radius around airports?

No idea how realistic this idea is, not my field of expertise at all.
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There were shrapnel holes on the tail and horizontal stabilizer surfaces, so it was an external explosion from a missile. From landing video pitch control was disabled and pilots were trying to land by controlling pitch using engine power which supports horizontal stabilizer disabled.

Loss of control happened over Russia, Ukraine was trying to attack Chechnya with DIY drones at the time so could be air defence friendly fire, or collision with a drone but that's statistically unlikely.
 
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How could Ma Yilong? How should we expect those Sinophobic anti-China haters and self-loathing bobalib Hanjians to live? Their 1.6 billion USD funding dog feed just got slashed to naught!

United States: Federal agency to combat foreign disinformation, criticized by Elon Musk, closes its doors due to lack of funding from Congress
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1871734041180885305
 
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Thomas L. Friedman

What I Learned Most From My Trip to China​






Friedman proposes Trump be Nixon 2.0, instead of a reverse Nixon. I think the US elites are already at the bargaining stage.
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Translation:
"Well, I tried to take out your tech sector to stay on top, but you punched back harder than I expected. Let’s call it water under the bridge—help me clean up my Ukraine and Iran messes, and I promise I’ll only stab you in the back later. Love, your favorite ruthless schemer, the U.S."
 
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Thomas L. Friedman

What I Learned Most From My Trip to China​






Friedman proposes Trump be Nixon 2.0, instead of a reverse Nixon. I think the US elites are already at the bargaining stage.
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Every time I read a Thomas Friedman article, I am left with the impression that the guy is unusually stupid. There's not so much the rhetorical deception and gaslighting you find with other Western journalists, it's more that he's just dumb.
 
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