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Satellite Shows Heat Flash When Russian Metrojet Plane Crashed, But No Missile: U.S. Officials
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 67064280:MV8yOTk3MTA4XzUzMTE0Mzk1X0IzNjU3MzM3] [quote:Anonymous Coward 52415929:MV8yOTk3MTA4XzUzMTE0MzEyX0U1RDg2QzlD] Lazers. Likely used a green lazer heated the fuel line. Boom. No missile. Plane struck down. Thoughts? [/quote] You need vapors to get fuel to explode... considering this jet's destination it's tanks would be full, making that unlikely. A laser that powerful would have to be built into a large fixed facility... and I know what you're going to say, yeah someone came up with a new one that fits into your pocket. Well someone with that kind of technology would not waste making it public by taking down an airliner... when they would obviously have the capability of just planting a bomb on the jet. [/quote]
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While many have speculated that a missile may have struck a Russian commercial airliner that went down over Egypt's Sinai peninsula, U.S. officials are now saying satellite imagery doesn't back up that theory.
A senior defense official told NBC News late Monday that an American infrared satellite detected a heat flash at the same time and in the same vicinity over the Sinai where the Russian passenger plane crashed.
According to the official, U.S. intelligence analysts believe it could have been some kind of explosion on the aircraft itself, either a fuel tank or a bomb, but that there's no indication that a surface-to-air missile brought the plane down.
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