It crashed because you nicked all the bloody landing lights for your candles!
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Mon 11 Sep 2017, 20:40,
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It seems it was a Flanker...
... an aircraft the US is not meant to have, would be fun having the back story on how they nicked it.
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They most certainly do have them though.
theaviationist.com/2017/01/06/these-crazy-photos-show-a-russian-su-27-flanker-dogfighting-with-a-u-s-air-force-f-16-inside-area-51/
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 12 Sep 2017, 8:52,
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They exported them to a number of countries (and lost control of a few when the Soviet Union split). Wildly speculating I'd say it's likely to have been one of the Belarusian ones.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-27#Operators
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 12 Sep 2017, 12:56,
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