A plane crash can make it easier to claim an alive man is dead as there may not be a body.
I could see this as a means to keep Wagner troops loyalties in check, or just to keep everyone guessing. The most likely scenario though is that Putin did what Putin does which is assassination.
I think its equally likely he was shot down/plane sabotaged, this is fake face saving thing, or the plane crashed due to shoddy mechanics. Whatever the case, the uncertainty works out in Putin's favour.
I mean, that's great! But what happens to his army of degenerate war criminals? They just unite under some other scumbag? Hopefully, he was arrogant enough to leave behind no indication of what to do in an event like this, and they succumb to infighting. We can dream, I suppose.
They are all headed to Africa to cause more trouble and try and get their own little fiefdoms. At some point the US, EU or NATO is going to have to go in and fuck them up.
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia's civil aviation authority has said.
Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow.
The jet, which was flying from the capital to St Petersburg, was carrying seven passengers and three crew.
They probably don't mind losing the crew and Piggy might have been the target (assuming this was intentional) but who else got disappeared along with him?
So, at the very least, our two good ol' boys bite the dust at the expense of three crew members and five, could be, random others or support staff.
Seems a little expensive but it isn't like the Ruskies haven't had AA targeting issues before, makes it a believable (read: completely bullshit) excuse.
This is ONLY the 677th time I've seen this posted in the last two days....Can someone do me a favor and post it 349 more times just so we've all seen it more than a couple of times.