Image of the smoke plume. Note the tall red building.
Geolocation image from Google Earth showing same view in Nashville as that of above tweet.
This explosion in Nashville happened only a couple blocks from the Davidson County Circuit Court building, seen down the street from the blast area (end of the street), as seen from Google Earth 3D rendering.
The two most prominent buildings in the Nashville explosion area are the Bellsouth building and the AT&T Building (TY to @momofkillerbs for pointing this out). The buildings closest to the riverfront are all small local businesses.
Investigation now treating explosion as intentional.
Just as an aside, this is fairly quick for them to acknowledge in an investigation, suggesting they have solid evidence.
Bell 206 helicopter N2BQ (A18D79) with an HD camera doing racetracks up and down Nashville waterfront above the scene of the explosion, as seen on @ADSBexchange. Listed to a Helicopters Inc.
View from same helicopter above Nashville. Estimate about a dozen local businesses gutted, about as many vehicles burned.
Couple of observations: the blast happened across the street from the tall buildings and at a time when there would have been few people out.
Neighbors noted there were bursts of gunfire prior to the loudspeaker warning.
To me, these were warning shots to get people up and to get their attention to the seriousness of the threat.
Clearly, whoever detonated this bomb thought a lot of this thru to avoid mass casualties.
As such, if there is that amount of reason left in the individual, they should consider doing the right thing and turn themselves into authorities before anyone else gets hurt.
A good example of what an RAF Sentinel R.1 battlefield surveillance aircraft flight path would look like for maximum coverage as it cruised thru Jordanian airspace just south of the Syrian border at Angels 43.
Possible geolocation of Ukraine AF An-26 crash. Note billboard in center of 2x2 lane highway. This location is 1.25 km from the end of the airbase at Chuhuiv.
That prognosis of 90% is not good. Awful thing to happen.
For those of you who have wondered what ICAO spoofing is, or why it is getting so much attention lately, here is a short description of what is going on.
1st, the callsign: a plane tracker will know from experience which are frequently used. Many air traffic radio enthusiasts over time have compiled 100s of callsigns assigned to particular aircraft. In this instance, MOJO is often seen in the Persian Gulf by refuel tankers.
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Callsigns can be a clue that a transmitter is receiving a false interrogation of its Mode-S receiver. Mode-S is a 6 digit code, using A-F letters and 0-9 numbers. Countries are assigned 3 digit prefix codes for their planes. In this case, AE0 is a code used for US mil planes.
Thread. Helicopter or ISR plane spots for the Breona Taylor protests for Wed., Sept. 23rd, 2020.
Denver.
EVANS22 is a US Army UH-72A Lakota, reg. 10-72145, ICAO AE1FA0.
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A current look at all HH-60 helicopter variants showing with full reg. and ICAO on ADSBx across the US. Most of these are near large municipalities. Many others are not transponding openly like the one in the tweet above. Those that go dark I cannot (& will not) post about.