Spartans are not seen here in Puget Sound often. This one came up from Sacramento. I regularly see them on flight data apps over Californian airspace. Not within a few miles of me.
Might explain why I didn't recognize the noise when it passed overhead.
πΊπΈ US Coast Guard MH-65D Dolphin 6517 engaged in a search pattern for the missing from today's crash of N725TH.
As seen from Port Gamble this evening.
The search continues this morning for those still missing from N725TH. Search is being extended out to the waters off Edmonds it seems as the tide would have drawn away anything or anyone from the initial crash site.
The search has been called off and the remaining 9 missing are presumed dead. One body recovered makes ten lost. A search of USCG air assets reveals the skies clear over the crash area.
OE-FGR #440A99 is currently way further than its Cologne, Germany destination and has reportedly no crew visible in the cabin (per Dagens Nyheter - Swedish news).
Breaking: significant drop in speed for OE-FGR.
(Per @ADSBexchange)
Altitude maintained level through the speed drop for a few moments. Autopilot must be engaged and would then try to maintain altitude despite drop in speed and would essentially stall.
Increased amount of π·πΊ Russian mil and government activity observed in the past 24 hours (0300Z 8/189/22 to 0259Z 8/20/22): 28 separate airframes recorded via @ADSBexchange
May be a result of increased data coverage, not necessarily flights.
Rossiya - Special Flight Detachment, part 1
π·πΊ RSD045 is Il-96-300 RA-96023 #157717
π·πΊ RSD071 is An-148-100EA RA-61716 #14F114
π·πΊ RSD073 is Il-96-300 RA-96018 #157712
π·πΊ RSD077 is A319-115(CJ) RA-73026 #151D42
Rossiya - Special Flight Detachment, part 2
π·πΊ RSD078 is Falcon 7X RA-09007 #14232F
π·πΊ RSD105 is Tu-204-300 RA-64058 #14FA3A
π·πΊ RSD882 is Tu-214 RA-64521 #14FC09
π·πΊ RSD980 is Tu-214 RA-64534 #14FC16 (FSB)
If you look closely at the image @Ameliairheart has provided, there are more than just craters that are in patterns. There are many aircraft within what might be construed as a blast radius by whatever created the massive craters that have irregular damage "halos".
These halos appear to be circular burn areas on the sides of aircraft to which damage is limited to only one side.
These aircraft are tucked together between berms designed to deflect blast damage. They also can conceal someone inside from view.
One thing that stuck out in my mind about the blast videos of Novofedorivka/Saki Airbase was people from a good distance away experienced a fairly steady breeze. This burn scar of grass & the smoke in the distance makes me wonder if the wind played a factor in spreading the fire.
I bring this up because if you look at this video, you'll notice the area where there are 2 major explosions has the wind drifting smoke from one explosion over the other, and fairly sideways, too.
I suppose it is possible one explosion led to the other.