Did Russia Fire At Another Civilian Aircraft?

Details of the emergency over the Caspian Sea.

A dry news item appeared on the news feeds: “An Aeroflot plane flying from Istanbul to Moscow was forced to make an emergency landing in Astrakhan on January 24 due to a malfunction.

The airport press service reported that flight SU2131 had to land “for technical reasons.” No details were given. Passengers were accommodated in the terminal building.”

This is a strange message in itself, since the reasons for an emergency landing are usually reported. You have probably seen a lot of such news: “the landing gear broke,” “the altitude sensors failed,” “there was a fuel leak,” “the automatics failed,” and the like. Even in Putin’s Russia, even now, the reasons for an emergency landing are given, unless something special has happened, like an abnormal operation of the air defense or electronic warfare. That's when they dodge and hide the reasons for the incident.

In this case, something like that happened over the Caspian Sea — the Russian Federation is launching its cruise missiles at Ukraine over it, and Ukrainian drones are flying in the opposite direction over it. And, by the way, in the same region, at the end of December, Russian air defense shot down an Azerbaijani passenger plane.

I admit that my version doesn't sound very well-founded yet, but pay attention to another message.

The day after the plane's emergency landing in Astrakhan (that is, today), Aeroflot pilots wrote an appeal to the Kremlin, demanding that flight safety be ensured, since the current state of affairs “leads to a direct risk of air crashes.”

“Aeroflot's command and instruction staff was forced to directly appeal to the President of Russia, the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Transport — bypassing Aeroflot CEO Sergei Alexandrovsky. The pilots explain this step by the management's inability to resolve a protracted internal crisis, which they believe is already jeopardizing flight safety.

The situation may be brought up for discussion by the Aeroflot Board of Directors at the end of this month.”

The Telegram channel, which wrote about the cry of despair of the Aeroflot pilots, emphasizes that the last straw for them was precisely the mysterious incident over the Caspian Sea on January 24.

You know, the Russian authorities and the Russian air defense have a certain reputation. They earned it honestly. Both by regularly shooting at civilian aircraft and by clumsy attempts to lie about what happened.

That is why I personally have no doubt that the Aeroflot plane on January 24 was either shot at or its electronics were jammed with electronic warfare, so that it could not fly further.

Ivan Yakovina, Facebook

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