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Ukrainian cargo plane which crashed in fireball explosion in Greece was carrying 11 TONS of weapons including mortar shells and land mines to Bangladesh - as all crew members are confirmed dead
2022-07-17
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Charred remains of crashed cargo plane burned for hours, with soldiers surveying signs of 'nuclear chemicals'

  • All eight Ukrainian crew members were killed after Antonov An-12 plane crashed in fireball in northern Greece

  • Light aircraft was transporting 11.5 tons of mortar, training shells and land mines from Serbia to the Bangladeshi military

  • Footage shows the plane falling out of the sky, with weapons onboard exploding for more than two hours

  • The fire service has cordoned off the area with a radius of 400m. Local mayor closed roads surrounding site

  • The plane's cargo was owned by Serbian company Valir, a registered military arms dealer
Posted by:Skidmark

#15  Serbian goods being transported by a Ukrainian company (Meridian) to Bangla.

Not much different than using giant Russian transports for moving US made _____ to SA.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-17 18:35  

#14  Thx
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-17 16:59  

#13  "Willy Peter will make you a Believer..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-17 16:46  

#12  Which is why when the rescue op landed in the area, they had to wait hours before the smoke cleared. There was magnesium fires burning, and all sorts of bright bangetty bangs. So I'm told.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-17 16:40  

#11  ^ Yupp. For training purposes. Round contains pyrophoric powders like iron sulphate mixed with magnesium. Brightly shining tracers to track performance and such, learn how to aim.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-17 16:37  

#10  Dron - Tracer Mortars? Hot visual rounds that let you know adjustments needed? Never heard of them and Wiki is stoopid on it
Posted by: Frank G   2022-07-17 16:32  

#9  I'm like Tom confused. I would think with the situation as it is, screw the contracts.
Posted by: Chris   2022-07-17 16:25  

#8  No, Bangladesh did make an order of tracer mortars for training a year ago. They shopped around, Turkey, Brazil, Ukraine... before they selected a Serbian firm; the Bangladesh defence ministry have a standing contract with them to supply trainer equipment and explosives ordnance.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-17 13:52  

#7  By way of Syria, where some mysteriously fell off the plane's back ramp...? Or past Bangladesh to some buyer in Myanmar?
Posted by: magpie   2022-07-17 13:37  

#6  Land mines. Would be problematic for a nominal NATO member in waiting to use.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-17 13:26  

#5  Serbian goods being transported by a Ukrainian company (Meridian) to Bangla.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-07-17 13:25  

#4  I'm still pretty confused. I thought Ukraine needed all the weapons they could get their hands on to fight the Russians? Why are they sending anything at all out of the country? Not sarcasm or snark--I genuinely don't get this.
Posted by: Tom   2022-07-17 13:12  

#3  Nothing to see here. Just business as usual. We can all go back to watching Lord of War which by some coincidence is about a Ukrainian arms dealer.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-07-17 13:08  

#2  Just the arms trade, Chris. The airplane was only transport. I added the key points from the article to the post.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-07-17 10:42  

#1  Why were they sending them to Bangledesh?
Posted by: Chris   2022-07-17 10:18  

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