BREAKING Russian Superjet-100 disappears in Indonesia during demo - Dozens of VIPs On-Board!!

I'm all about conspiracies, but you may be suffering from GLPitis

You might want to re-think that. Boeing made 63% more airplanes in the same time-frame and Tupolev has 75% of the crashes that Boeing has, with 63% less aircraft in the air.

I'll take my chances with Boeing.

weather says thunderstorms at 2am

Reminds me of an old show I used to watch as a kid...


Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from a Russian Airport
As it left that tiny air strip.

The Pilot was a mighty flying man,
The stewards brave and sure.
Invited passengers took flight that day
For a one hour tour, a one hour tour.

The weather started getting rough,
The Super Jet was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The VIP's would be lost, the VIP's would be lost.




Not sure how this will end yet. Feel free to add your lyrics.

Yes. A plane filled with business-world, media and press VIP's who ALL had an inexplicable urge to attend a demo of a particular Russian airplane in this remote, mountainous region of Backwoods, Java, a region which THE PILOT WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH, on a flight which was somehow twice as long as they were given clearance for. And then the "crash", which, by the way, DOES NOT happen very often when calculated against total flights in the air daily.

Mathematics is a wonderful thing. It lets you calculate the odds of all these anomalous, coincidental events ALL happening together at the same time, and come up with a rational idea that it just isn't likely to occur this way.

As my Dad always said, "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going!"

Hey, go big or go home.

My conspiracy is this:

It was a shoulder fired surface to air missile that blew the plane up-Al Qaeda Indonesia

Last Edited by Cosa Nostra on 05/09/2012 02:42 PM

Stephen Coonts "DEEP BLACK"

A spy plane gathering data on a new Russian weapon is blown out of the sky by a mysterious MiG. Is it an accident or the start of the next world war? One U.S. agency has what it takes to find out–the National Security Agency and its covert operations team: DEEP BLACK. Working for the NSA, ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean is dispatched to Russia, hooking up with former Delta Force trooper Lia DeFrancesca to find out what happened to the plane. The Deep Black team stumbles across an even more alarming secret–a plot to assassinate the Russian president and overthrow the democratic government by force. The coup could have dire consequences for Russia and the world. With no clearance from the government it’s called on to protect, the National Security Agency goes to war. But before Lia and Dean can unravel the conspiracy, they learn that one of the spy plane’s passengers–an NSA techie–survived the crash. Critical information could fall into enemy hands. And that enemy is playing to the death. “Coonts knows how to write and build suspense.” --The New York Times Book Review

Dude, you're reaching. Why don't you calculate the chances that you were actually born, to your actual parents during this time in history....All those forces that came together, to make you. What are the chances?

These VIP's were airline executives from Indonesia, some from the builder, and press people, who were invited to talk up the plance. It's not a conspiracy, it's a crash. Just like your dad's sperm crashed into you mom's egg and then, there you were.

I just heard a loud jet flying overhead my house, I think its the Superjet!

the plane dissapeared near the volcano Bogor ;) at Dzakarta


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Love it!!!!

That is a horrible comparison.. using his birth..

a good start, but can you add any drama? My theory has more Hollywood appeal, I think.

Indeed!

Is there other Stephen Coonts fans here ?

Yeah, it's not a good argument. If I believe in Intelligent Design, the God controls all of that.

But this, this has all the hallmarks of human machinations.
So he bolsters my point instead of refuting it.

But, let's keep trying. Also, it's MRS. Dude. Dudette.

absolutely wrong...

Tupolev 154 is not Russian, but USSR made aircraft.

Good thing is that you have no real chance to fly "Russian" aircraft as there are no existed ones. Crashed plane was a test model to bluff that Russia can produce something useful today.

LOL! And a big +1 for my crater-bunker theory!

yh they've probably faked their deaths to take refuge in the bunkers before the mega tsunami hits south east asia

National origin Soviet Union/Russia

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Now are you going to tell me that russia wasn't part of the USSR?

BTW that came from the aviation Herald not me forgot to post link.

perhaps they jump off by parachutes in an pre defined area where the bunkers are build, and the plane was controlled landed in the volcano bogor and then dissapeared in the heat of the magma.

can it be all so simple man ;8

That obvious, huh? lol

The Yak Aircraft Corporation (formerly the A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau JSC) is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak). Its head office is in Aeroport District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow

You might want to look at this one too

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or this

Yakovlev Yak-58
Role Six-seat cabin monoplane
National origin Russia
Manufacturer Yakovlev
First flight 26 December 1993

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i think the volcano is called merapi and is the most active java volcano as i read

soo, were some these passengers opponents of Putin?

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Mount Merapi, Gunung Merapi (literally Fire Mountain in Indonesian/Javanese), is an active stratovolcano located on the border between Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is the most active volcano in Indonesia and has erupted regularly since 1548. It is located approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of Yogyakarta city, and thousands of people live on the flanks of the volcano, with villages as high as 1,700 metres (5,600 ft) above sea level.

The name Merapi could be loosely translated as 'Mountain of Fire'. The etymology of the name came from Meru-Api; from the Javanese combined words; Meru means "mountain" refer to mythical mountain of Gods in Hinduism, and api means "fire". Smoke can be seen emerging from the mountaintop at least 300 days a year, and several eruptions have caused fatalities. Hot gas from a large explosion killed 27 people on 22 November in 1994, mostly in the town of Muntilan, west of the volcano.[3] Another large eruption occurred in 2006, shortly before the Yogyakarta earthquake. In light of the hazards that Merapi poses to populated areas, it has been designated as one of the Decade Volcanoes.

Yea this is what I am thinking, some asshat feels really horrible tonight...