Russian Intelligence Blames United States For Superjet Crash

[NYCA News]

NYCAviation:

Russian Intelligence Blames United States For Superjet Crash

A week before rescuers found the plane's flight data recorder on Thursday, Russia's GRU military intelligence agency began claiming that the most plausible explanation for the May 9th crash of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 is that the United States military jammed its electronics
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[gonzalu]

OMFG that is so ludicrous ... why not also blame the Brazilians of Embraer or the French/German/English/Italians/Spanish/etc. countries of Airbus Industries? Should they also include Canada and/or Japan?

They all make planes that could see competition from the Superjet... I guess it is more sexy and hot to blame the US

I really adore all my Russian friends and colleagues, they are super smart and can carry on really heated and deep philosophical and intellectual discussions. But this is simply coo-coo!

[moose135]

It was Jedi mind control. They made the pilot fly into the mountain.

These aren't the droids you are looking for...

[gonzalu]

...these aren't the mountains you were looking for...

[wunaladreamin]

[Yoda Voice] Into the mountain you must fly. [/Yoda Voice]

[yankees368]

Clearly since us Americans control the GPS constellation, we reprogrammed the coordinated just long enough to crash the Superjet. Ugh.

[emk1219]

I would blame Canada, maybe they deployed some of thier canadian geese on a suicide mission...

[Big Tim #70]

I blame this guy!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6r9zeh9Wp7s?rel=0



Make sure you have the sound up...

[snydersnapshots]

Clearly since us Americans control the GPS constellation, we reprogrammed the coordinated just long enough to crash the Superjet. Ugh.

I've flown through areas of GPS jamming or unreliability. In a Boeing, the GPS just drops out and won't work until you pass through the area. That being said, if the GPS updates the Inertial Reference Units like it does in other airplanes, then the IRS should be relatively reliable for several hours. Certainly it shouldn't precess enough during a half-hour or hour flight to have that much of a map shift.

[captmjk16]

I was thinking of an "in Soviet Russia" joke, but nothing good is coming to mind, so I'll just say this is dumb. There's no excuse to be flying in a place like that with that type of aircraft without some form of backup navigation, be it INS, GLONASS, hell even VORs, and how about trying to pull back on this fancy new control stick to get above the mountains?