If they were gun shots...which I doubt...it was the President of Poland's plane.
That means there were armed body guards carrying loaded guns on board and stored ammo on the plane.
Live rounds do tend to "cook" off when exposed to fire.


That is entirely possible. But considering the circumstances of the crash and where it happened, when one hears something like gun shots you have to assume they are.

If they were rounds "cooking off", wouldn't they be more random? These sounded like they were shot not cooked. Just my opinion.


I'd say they were rounds going off in a gun. I don't think rounds cooking off make the crack like that did. They're low velocity and not very compressed.

I've shot guns all of my life and I'd put money on it. I'm not going to say 100% but it sure sounds like a small caliber round going off.

It did to me too...and I've heard thousands and thousands...you can also hear the guy step on few twigs in the beginning...they make a much higher tighter register snap...one thing for sure...all four sounds were very close to each other sonically...if there were various bottles cooking off...I'd expect they would vary a LOT more...last one sounds more like it was pointed in the cameras direction...and all sound like gunshots to me...like about the .380 range....sounded smaller than 9mm parabelum....and that is what a Makarov fires...9x18?...something like that...but it's more or less a .380 or 9mm "short"....