The pilot confirmed Putin’s words about Prigozhin’s plane: the grenade explosion is destructive

At this altitude the aircraft’s wings fly off

The explosion of a grenade on board the plane of the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was flying at an altitude of approximately 8 kilometers, could not but lead to the destruction of the aircraft. This is what a pilot with 40 years of experience and former aircraft commander Vladimir Salnikov thinks.

President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the Valdai Forum on Thursday, announced the results of the investigation into the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane, which killed all the people on board the business jet, including the management of the Wagner PMC and the crew. As the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, reported to the president, fragments of hand grenades were found in the bodies of the victims. “There was no external influence on the plane,” Putin recounted the words of the head of the Investigative Committee.

“This means that there was a grenade explosion on board the aircraft,” Vladimir Salnikov told MK.

– What happens during such an explosion at an altitude of approximately eight kilometers? The plane is small – a business jet. Could the wing fall off from such an explosion?

– The plane is sealed. At an altitude of eight kilometers, the air pressure inside the cabin corresponds to a level of 1500 meters. That is, the difference between the outer and inner contour is large. Air is taken from the engines, and the inside of the plane, as the pilots say, is inflated. If any explosion occurs at altitude, the plane will simply tear apart and the wings will fly off. All this is quite possible.

Previously, sources close to the investigation claimed that a box allegedly containing wine was brought on board Prigozhin before the flight.