Curious news report from the day after Prigozhin's crash claiming that the now deceased copilot allowed two outsiders inside the aircraft a few hours before takeoff, supposedly because they were interested in buying an Embraer Legacy.
Other tidbits: Prigozhin used to demand that flight crews equip the plane with parachutes, even though they were useless for such an aircraft. He'd also sometimes fly to different destinations than he was officially registered for (angering air traffic officials), and he used to destroy passenger manifests after flights.
Prigozhin was also apparently very careful about allowing and storing weapons onboard, which would seem to challenge one theory floating around that the fatal blast inflight was an accident.
@kevinrothrock
> even though they were useless for such an aircraft
Why though?
The best I could find is: https://luxuryviewer.com/do-private-jets-have-parachutes/
Passengers don't know how to use them? Not the case here.
How the doors are placed makes using them highly dangerous and most probably fatal? Well, when the plane is obviously falling, I'd still gamble.
And according to the video posted, they've had plenty of time to consider 🤷
@markhughes
Yes, but we are not talking mere airline passengers here, maybe not Prigozhin, but I'm pretty sure Wagner-Utkin himself has seen worse shit.
And of course putting parachute on when the plane is in uncontrollable stall is too late, but from what we know first it had been gaining altitude too rapidly, then losing it… If I were them, I'd be grabbing those parachutes right after things started going not according to the plan.
Then again, we are only theorizing here. @kevinrothrock
@markhughes We still don't even know for sure whether the plane was hit by AA projectile or if it was some sort of explosive device onboard, if it's the latter, they might have been injured and not in position to do anything at all.
All I'm saying, if most people being unprepared is the main reason parachutes are considered useless, stating so might be a stretch. Utkin is ex special forces GRU, maybe not James Bond, but hardly an average office worker😅
@kevinrothrock
@m0xee @kevinrothrock James Bond, Nathan whatsisname etc sure, but any human in a plummeting plane who can get a parachute on, get to the door, open it and jump out, not snag it... 🤷♂️