Decimation.

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Do not think that the decimation of the top command of the Soviet Pacific fleet as described in the previous blog entry was a totally unique event. Far from it.

Here with other instances, airplane crash [or submarine sinking], many top military brass/civilian counterparts gone in an instant.

 

1. Egypt Air Flight 990.

"Egypt Air Flight 990 . . . was a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Cairo International Airport, with a stop at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City. On October 31, 1999, the Boeing 767-300ER operating the route crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 60 miles (100 km) south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, killing all 217 passengers and crew on board.

"The flight was carrying 203 passengers from seven countries . . . Included in the passenger manifest were 33 Egyptian military officers returning from a training exercise; among them were two brigadier generals, a colonel, a major, and four other air force officers. After the crash, newspapers in Cairo were prevented by censors from reporting the officers' presence on the flight."

The accepted consensus [?] being that Flight 990 deliberately flown into the ocean by a co-pilot, a terrorist action quite intentional. Targets the passengers of high Egyptian army rank.

2. Chinese nuclear submarine sinking.

The worst nuclear disaster in history. Exceeding perhaps by a considerable magnitude [?] the Chernobyl reactor meltdown calamity.

Chinese nuclear submarine colliding with a Soviet submarine during maneuvers in the Yellow Sea. Chinese submersible breaking apart and going to the bottom to a depth of 3,000 feet [a thousand meters]. Reactor breached with an enormous spew of radioactive mater spewing into the ocean.

ALL HANDS LOST! ADDITIONALLY FORTY SENIOR CIVILIAN PERSONNEL OF THE TOP CHINESE SUBMARINE DESIGN BUREAU ALSO ON BOARD AND PERISHING. ALONG FOR THE RIDE TO SEE "HOW THINGS ARE DONE".

3. "General Sikorski’s Fatal Plane Crash, Gibraltar: Accident or Sabotage?"

"The presence of Soviet secret agents in Gibraltar during the days leading up to a fatal plane crash on the Rock in 1943, which killed the then President in exile of Poland, General Sikorski, continues to raise questions to this day. Was it an accident or an assassination?" 

From the era of the Second World War the untimely death of the senior Polish military commander Sikorski still problematic. 

Airplane crash at the time [1943] and even now thought in some circles to have been NO accident.

That plane too overloaded and the cargo now properly stored more than likely a more rational explanation!

Also within context think the Smolensk air disaster as deemed. Senior civilian and military leadership the demise of so many top leaders all at once again in some quarters seen as suspicious.

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