Flight path of a plane that took off from Damascus shorty after news broke that Assad left the city towards unknown destination, which might have been Latakia on Syrian coast which is still under SAA control as of now. Terrain in place where flightradar stopped tracking that plane isn’t especially suited for emergency landing

Shortly after crash Syrian Army Command informs officers about fall of the regime https://xcancel.com/Alhadath_Brk/status/1865587913817305454#m

update: it’s not spoofed transponder data or controlled landing, locals reported plane crash in the area. rumors so far, but dawn will break soon in Syria and we’ll know https://xcancel.com/Schizointel/status/1865593800678130081#m

clarification: there’s some chance that Assad went out of Damascus before on other, private jet, so it’s not sure and it’s all conjecture on unproven information

update 2: there’s a claim by Russian media that Assad is in Moscow, so he would have to flee on some earlier plane, but no photos as of now. Still, looked mildly credible at the time

  • @[email protected]
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    Good example of why you don’t trust internet “journalism.”

    It’s just a rumour until you get confirmation from the AP. People tend to think the mainstream media is hiding things, but it’s usually down to them not publishing unconfirmed rumours while the internet will. And here’s an example of why that is. Many of these things wind up being false. It’s better to hear about what actually happened two days later than spend time forming opinions about what might have happened right now.

    • nukeM
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      It’s better to hear about what actually happened two days later than spend time forming opinions about what might have happened right now

      Lmao do you know where you are??? This is NCD, I have recklessly violent opinions over shit that only exists in my head.

      • @[email protected]
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        *camera pans warthunder arguing over about millimeters of handrail on a 20 year old tank *

    • @[email protected]
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      You’re giving journalists way to much credit. The Pulitzer Prize was named after a man who started the Spanish American war by making shit up.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      you don’t have to get AP article for every claim, but it helps. if you can get geolocated footage, that’s still a bit better than just rumors, many of these maps work this way. this time a few things were missing

  • @[email protected]
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    You know when NCD has actual writeups and citations shit is getting real. Getting Wagner coup vibes, what a time to be alive where we can glimpse into the sausage of geopolitics being made in real time.

  • @[email protected]OPM
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    854 days ago

    this is the kind of superpower that chronic insomnia gets you

    join our matrix channel for more noncredible news

  • @[email protected]
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    654 days ago

    Honestly guys, it’s not the first time I got breaking world news from this community and I am disappointed, I thought this was non-credible?

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      Yes, but to be truly non-credible, one must first poses great knowledge and insight.

    • @[email protected]
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      The funniest part is it may be days before news starts reporting he was probably on this plane. They’ll want to wait for some sort of confirmation, which probably doesn’t exist.

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    Can we speed run the Russsian collapse as well?

    It’s going to shit me if Putin falls on the 22nd Jan so the orange boofhead can claim the credit.

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        Probably both he usually takes both sides on every issue at some point.

        At least the balkanisation and collapse of Russia will be a simple thing for such a stable genius to manage.

    • @Delphia
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      My conspiracy theory is that Trump will “Talk tough” to Putin and “tell him” to back off and take only “minor” concessions to end the war. He gets to claim that he ended it, look how strong and diplomatic he can be. Putin will spin it differently back home, nobody will buy it but nobody will care because the sanctions will be lifted and money will start flowing.

      The Ukraine wont get NATO admission, the US will block it but they will be a whole lot better off than if Trump just removed all US support and the bombing will stop so they wont like it, but the alternative is losing the whole country.

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    One of the rare cases where I hear of a death and check wikipedia to still see the word “is”. I wonder how long confirmation will take.

    • Daemon Silverstein
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      There may be no changes on the article yet, but there’s a lot of ongoing discussion at the Discussion page of the article:

      • @[email protected]
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        German Wikipedia already has past tense and a small paragraph about Assad leaving the country for an unknown location.

        • @[email protected]
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          Is it sourced properly? Because killing people on wikipedia without sources isn’t helping wikipedia’s credibility.

          • @[email protected]
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            At least the current version of the article uses past tense when referring to his presidency but doesn’t claim he’s dead.

  • @[email protected]
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    Russia claim he’s already in Russia, but I’ve seen no footage of him yet. It’s entirely possible he’s in the wreckage.

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    Today is a day of victory for chins everywhere

  • Rentlar
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    Nooooooo you can’t break credible news on NCD!!1!!! 😭

    NCD: Haha Illusion-76 go brrrrrrr (crash)

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        Yea, it’s amazing how fast this can go down. Been F5ing Live UA map every few hours the last few days and almost every time there were notable changes.

        This also cements Russia’s loss of their only notable Mediterranean port.

          • @[email protected]OPM
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            that would be dumbest and highest profile friendly fire ever. are we sure that Girkin wasn’t exiled to Syria?

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      that would be pretty stupid so it’s definitely an option

      we can guess that 1. assad was on that plane, and 2. it did something that looked like a bad malfunction and 3. there are rumors of plane crash in the area. maybe it was some stupid reason like mechanical malfunction, or maybe friendly fire from russian S300 at Tartus, or maybe unfriendly fire from whatever SAM HTS now has. or something else

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          Unlikely but not impossible IMO.

          If you want revenge so much you take out a whole plane, you’d done it earlier. But again, maybe there was a lot of panic so surveillance was not that good, and feeling the imminent collaps could have pushed someone over the limit. But I wonder what one man can do in a situation like that.

          So very unlikely until more information I guess.

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      The plane flew over opposition controlled territory in Homs, and then it started losing altitude very fast. I think the Russians didn’t have the chance of doing anything funny this time.