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The world owes you a deep debt of gratitude, though some may not understand. I grew up in Cold War Europe and traveled throughout the USSR and other Iron Curtain countries making it easy to see. We enjoy our freedoms because of people like you. Enjoy your leave!

Print away! The West will provide free ink. Best way to destroy an economy. In fact, printing Rubles is what the Russian Central Bank is desperate to avoid. Problem is Russia is caught in the famous central bank's trilemma called the Impossible Trinity that says: A central bank can do any two of three possible actions, but not all three. The linked analysis explains why no matter which two Russia chooses its economy is doomed. A trilemma is a bit like being caught between a rock and a hard place in front of a Russian window. LINKS: Full analysis: https://youtu.be/7Lg6JZEtnOk?t=36 Russia fails the impossible trinity: https://youtu.be/7Lg6JZEtnOk?t=309

The Russian Duma is so uncomfortable that Putin might restrict Russian citizens bank accounts that members have suggested passing laws to prevent it. Even though Putin ally Central Bank head Elvira Nabiullina said they would not. Can you imagine not believing Vladimir Putin? But the cold hard truth is that no government would ever announce freezing citizens assets in advance because it would cause a nationwide bank run. WATCH Russian source video, look at their faces: (also reported in Newsweek)

The impetus to upgrade flight recorders with battery backup came from ICAO after a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner crashed in 1998 when a fire burned through its wiring and investigators found the final 5 minutes of recording missing. ICAO then recommended battery backup should be added by 2004. ICAO is an international organization. But technical issues slowed the upgrade in part due to environment requirements. As of 2009, new US registered planes were to have battery backed recorders by April 2010, with retrofits on old planes by 2012. Planes registered in Europe would following in 2012. See [reference].

Other than his 25 years of experience, the answer may be that landing gears are easy to drop but hard to pull back up. 737-800 landing gears can be dropped even manually but pulling them up requires hydraulic system A (of three), which is primarily powered by left engine 1. 737-800s have 3 hydraulic systems, A, B, and Backup. A and B are not symmetrical. A is primary and primarily (sorry) powered off left engine 1. B is powered off right engine 2. See this detailed functional description of 737-800's hydraulic systems: http://737exam.com/pdf/BOEING 737-13 Hydraulics.pdf So, if they retracted the landing gear to go around, then engine 1 was likely running. Note this is subtle. Systems A and B have partial cross backup capability so that on engine 1 failure during takeoff, system B can assist system A (on dead engine 1) to pull the landing gear up. But in the current case, engine 2 is assumed toast due to the bird strike. So if engine 1 was running before the go around, what happened later? Why no landing gear? Point 2 If hydraulic systems A and B both fail, the backup system powers minimal systems seemingly required for a worst case landing. These are: - Engine 1 & 2 thrust reversers <=== (observed during landing ?) - Standby rudder - Leading edge flaps & slats ( extension only ) - Standby yaw damper ( loss of system A & B

The speculator sat in a 737 pilot's seat for 25 years. I'll listen to his speculation. Speculation is the foundation on which we ask testable questions in search of answers. Scientists speculate, investigators speculate, AN posters speculate.

Good video. He offers various views assuming ordinary bird strikes are relatively survivable but repeats that the pilots may have inadvertently shut down the wrong (left) engine before landing leading to loss of hydraulics which depend on the the craft's left engine. See 10:50 and 27:00 in the video. It would not be the first time pilots shutdown the wrong engine leading to the loss of an aircraft on landing. The following is from planecrashinfo.com. Planecrashinfo has even stranger tales. My favorite is a flight where the pilot's windshield popped out dragging the pilot out the window only to be caught by his legs while the copilot lands the plane with the pilot still hanging outside.

It's easy to show the bird strike occurred early during the initial approach from the south, and that the final landing was from the north. All you need is time of day and the sun's direction. The plane's right (bird strike) side is brightly lit by the morning sun as it approaches from the south and the sea. The later crash video shows the plane's right side in deep shadow and even sun reflections off the top of the fuselage. Further, a newer video shows the plane's initial approach even earlier revealing a series of right engine explosive bursts. Even before that, there appears to be a smoke trail suggesting that bird strikes occurred even earlier. Earlier approach video link here. Note, the video is shown at various speeds, the last is clearest. Approaching from the south, sun lit from the East. Landing from the mountainous north lit on the plane's left by the morning sun.

The berm was known and reported from the beginning via social media. HERE HERE , etc. Any confusion was because there is a concrete structure/wall in the berm, so the plane did hit a concrete barrier, none of which relates to the cause of the crash. WIKI reports: "the flight belly landed long and overran the runway, crashing into a berm encasing a concrete wall that supported an instrument landing system array." Here you see part of the enclosed concrete support structure in the berm that the plane hit. CLICK TO ZOOM. Before collision. CLICK TO ZOOM These berms are used elsewhere, here is one in Canada that has been hit by jumbo jets, according to the article HERE.

Why, the end of Putin's regime and possibly his whole global empire. Here's a detailed read about coming economic collapse. Elsewhere, calls are circulating in Chinese media to retake territory lost to Russia. In Iran, rioting has begun against the Russian supported mullahs. Persians want their country back. Syria already collapsed.

Holy cow, your test link worked fine for me in the AN composer before posting but is dead after posting. Test, Here is an ordinary link from WIKI with text: The Odyssey Here I paste just the raw link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey These work fine so some links aren't linking correctly. EDIT I just wrote a plain text email to myself with your failing test link and it works fine in all possible formats. So AN software may be involved.

Since your earlier post below, none of your 'links' have embedded links, have an underline, or are clickable. They are plain text. Links before that are fine. Real links that you pasted in plain text starting with https://... can work by copying and pasting them in the browser's address bar. Did anything change in your software environment? Maybe try some variation, different device etc. I tried your last test link to see if it works on my desktop: Ukraine reveals handwritten letter of a fallen North Korean soldier in Kursk

Alert: Apparently the ruble really is collapsing. Now at 110.98 and rising steadily almost 1% per hour. Something wrong.

Biden and the EU greatly upped the ante by allowing long range strikes into Russia. Now, word from the new administration: BREAKING: Counterterrorism Adviser nominee Sebastian Gorka, says that Trump plans to end the Ukraine war by threatening to flood Ukraine with military aid, making current U.S. support look like “peanuts” This is called peace through strength. https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1861239932670312859 I will make a prediction: By or before Valentines day, the end of Putin's Russia and maybe Putin himself will be in sight. 3, 2, 1, ... "Do you want nuclear war? WW3? MAD?!"

All factors in the Russian economy are worsening at an accelerating rate. Below is a summary. Remember, the head of the Russian state bank has repeatedly said in public that the broad economy cannot take the strain past 2024. Putin (and a few folks here) talk about Russia's GDP. That's meaningless because it comes from making bombs and weapons that blow up in Ukraine contributing zero (zip) to the economy. IOW, Putin is bragging about throwing money down the drain, as propagandist depots do.