u/Ilovethebomb

Making sure the Argentinians don't get any big ideas is one example.

Nope, cope slope it is.

20 living captives and 30 dead, they're using dead bodies as bargaining chips.

The procedure here, it seems, is to store them in an inert environment, namely nitrogen, so a very similar process.

>But investigators are also zeroing in on what they describe is an interesting point in the report.

>It says in December 2018, the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) highlighting that some Boeing 737 fuel control switches were installed with the locking feature disengaged.

Ahh. Although I doubt they've been like that for ten years, if that's happened here, so likely a maintenance issue.

You can also just throttle back, which would have the same effect.

These switches are evidently monitored by the aircraft's systems, as the investigators seem to know for a fact when these switches were moved. This is not a "failure", unless the switch moved by itself.

I'm not sure why you're trying to "I reckon" this, when we know why the engines stopped.

Apparently they need to be pulled to change their orientation, I'm wondering if the mechanism simply wore out?

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/11/india/air-india-crash-report-intl-latam

This article has a photo of the switches in question, and goes into more detail about how they work.

Have you heard the story of the death valley Germans, by any chance? It seems to be a common theme with European tourists getting into trouble in remote areas.

I'd say leaving a note stating your intentions would also be a good idea, if you do leave your vehicle.

I'm surprised someone travelling in such a remote area wouldn't have some type of satellite communicator, an Inreach type device or a PLB.

I wonder what the long term plan here was? Seize a patch of land through violent means, then what? Just assume the government will let you keep it?

I feel a lot has been lost in translation there.

You just copied the original headline, this isn't on you.

Fucking legendary.

What was the insult, watermelon seller?

Suicide, or spend the rest of your life in a Russian prison?

Yeah, entirely possible this was a genuine suicide.

Until now, the fact that the rest of the civilised world would wreck their economy through sanctions has stopped them doing that.

Everything on the NZ list is illegal pretty much anywhere in the world though.

No golden showers for the Auzzies though.

What "broad restrictions" is NZ and Australia under?