that the plane hadn t moved. if not a bomb, then it could have been a surface to air missile. russia certainly has the capacity and reuters is reporting that two us officials have told them it was a surface to air missile, though the us has not commented publicly on the cause. another explanation is it was a missile from a fighterjet. we know prigozhin s plane came down near a village called kuzhenkino, north of moscow. just over 12 miles away is the migalovo airbase. a fighterjet could have reached the plane very quickly. but while prigozhin s plane s final flight could be tracked on publicly available services, fighterjets don t allow this type of tracking. we don t know if a jet was involved. the final explanation is that this was an accident. prigozhin s plane was an embraer legacy 600. the model s had one accident in more than 20 years service and that wasn t caused by mechanical failure. also, prigozhin s plane was cruising at 28,000 feet, the least likely time in a flight for a
and there is still no confirmation that he was on the plane. our russia editor steve rosenberg has the latest. in a field 60 miles from moscow, the wreckage of a plane, the private jet on which the russian authorities say yevgeny prigozhin was travelling. an investigation is under way into the cause of this crash. was ita bomb, a missile? was it sabotage? the authorities say all ten people on board were killed. but it s mr prigozhin s fate that is centre of attention. for years the kremlin s mr fixit, his mercenary group had fought in ukraine. but two months ago it mutinied. they took over the city of rostov and moved on towards moscow. it was an unprecedented challenge to the kremlin. so, is yevgeny prigozhin s reported demise in the plane crash president putin s revenge?
think most western intelligence officials are almost certainly leading towards the idea that it was something on board a plane rather than being shut down by missile. those earlier reports seen by eyewitnesses and complained plane did not disintegrate. missiles are very powerful being smitten to blow a plane up and causing it to disintegrate in mid air, this one, as we saw from the video, spiralled down to the cloud to the ground and i think the theories that are being looked at by countries outside of russia are that it was some kind of sabotage, device on board, tampering with the fuel, something like that but i don t think there s any question in peoples minds that it was an accident in this was deliberate. the plane was flying perfectly normally at a normal height and there are no problems on take off and at a normal trajectory
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