the aircraft associated with prigozhin is ra 02795. it makes frequent trips between moscow and st. petersburg. cnn geolocated the main crash site to here and you can see the same tail number visible amid the debris. the plane left moscow at 5:55 local time and 12 minutes later the location is no longer d dete detectable. but public tracking still receives information on its altitude. the last minute of the recorded flight is key. you can see here the flight s altitude is erratic, it is going hir higher and lower before it eventually plummets. they say it is highly unusual and suggests that those on board were trying to stabilize the plane after something happened to it. in other words the destruction was not big enough to obliterate everyone and everything instantly. expert opinion is split on what exactly happened. likely an explosion, perhaps a bomb on board or a missile
prigozhin is ra 02795. it makes frequent trips between mask ow and st. petersburg and you could see the tail number visible amid the debris. plane last at 5:55 p.m. local time and 12 minutes later the location is no longer detectible. but public flight radar 24 still received information on the altitude. the last minute of the recorded flight is key. you could see here the flight s altitude is erratic. it is going higher an lower before it eventually plummeted. now aviation experts told us this highly unusual and suggested those on board were trying to stabilize the plane after something happened to it. in other words the destruction was not big enough to obliterateern and everything instantly. s it split on what exactly happened. likely none explosion, perhaps a bomb on board or a missile hitting it or even something else.
there are multiple videos on social media that appear to show this jet crashing. tracking data on flightradar21i does not show where the plane departed from. it appears near moscow, where it climbed to an altitude of nearly 29,000 feet before the data shows it suddenly dropping, ending up at 0ft. eyewitnesses said they heard two loud bangs shortly beforehand. and while the cause of this crash is not instantly clear, quite clearly prigozhin s longstanding feud with the kremlin and the generals would give the russian state ample motive for revenge. media channels linked to wagner have tonight suggested that russian air defence missiles brought the plane down. these are pictures from the ground which show the wreckage on fire. the private plane is an embraer business jet. it is the one he often travelled in, its tail number ra 02795 would be extremely familiar to the russian authorities as indeed it is to the international media.