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Re:Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies sole... by jrockway on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:49PM (#37043466)
I feel like the planespotting community will eventually ask "hey what happened to that registration number ABC123" or "didn't Aeroflot used to have 80 777s, but only 79 have been seen in the last year"?

I feel like it's hard to hide a plane that's designed for international travel in a highly regulated industry.

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Re:Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies sole... by inferiorhuman on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:33PM (#37043779)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Angola_Boeing_727_disappe...
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Re:Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies sole... by jrockway on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:37PM (#37043802)
We know it's missing, right? In the case the original commenter posted, they'd have to somehow prove it didn't crash.
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Re:Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies sole... by inferiorhuman on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:14PM (#37044074)
Like the Malaysian 777, we know it's missing. No idea what happened to it or where it is. Even in the twenty-first century it's not impossible.

In the context of the Russian war, the Russian government stole a bunch of planes being leased to Russian airlines by foreign companies and assigned them Russian tail numbers. With that paucity of transparency I'd say it's even easier to hide a plane wreck over there.

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Re:Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies sole... by throw-ru-938 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:10AM (#37047234)
2003 was twenty years ago, we didn't have Flightradar24 yet.
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