On August 23, 2023, a video of a burning diving aircraft began to spread on the Internet. It is alleged that this is the business jet of the founder of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin. We decided to check if this is so.
Video of a burning aircraft was published by both users of social networks and the media. In particular, the post of adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko On the social network X (former Twitter) scored 2.5 million views at the time of writing this analysis (however, Gerashchenko specified that the reliability of the video has not been proven). And the YouTube channel "Editor" in the release of the weekly show "Editors.News"(1.8 million views) in the plot dedicated to the collapse of Prigozhin aircraft, accompanied these personnel analysis of the version of the bomb laid on board.
August 23 Private Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft crashed in the Tver region. Among the passengers of the business jet were the founder of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin and the immediate head of the mercenaries Dmitry Utkin. The examination later confirmed that they were on board. Telegram channels associated with Prigozhin, Reportedthat the aircraft was shot down by a rocket, the official investigation authorities examine Several versions, including technical problems and explosion on board.
In social networks, several videos of the aircraft fall appeared. On one of them, published on August 23, you can clearly see how Embraer dives, and white smoke stretches behind it (obscene vocabulary is present in the video).
In another video shot from another point, the picture is exactly the same: the aircraft goes vertically down, white smoke is visible, there is no open burning (in the video there is an obscene lexical).
The video, which the “editors” illustrates the analysis of the version of the explosion on board, differs from the previous two: on it the plane burns right in the air. In fact, it is not related to the collapse of Embraer Legacy 600 in the Tver region - these personnel were published June 24, 2023, during the armed rebellion, raised by the same Evgeny Prigozhin and mercenaries from the Wagner PMC.
A burning aircraft fell in the Voronezh region - it was shot down by Wagnerians. Later it turned out that it was Flying command post IL-22. It is he who burns on the published entry, the type of aircraft and its registration number was determined later by debris.
Thus, the video of the aircraft burning in the air has nothing to do with the business jet Evgeny Prigozhin, these personnel appeared two months before the death of the founder of the Wagner PMC.
Photo on the cover: screenshot "Checked" / social networks
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