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In Washington, the secrecy didn’t take long to be established, and although the Pentagon issued a brief statement confirmed by the incident and expressed concern for the crew’s safety, the lack of concrete details only intensified the climate of suspicion.
One of the first hypotheses points to a severe mechanical failure, perhaps aggravated by hostile navigation conditions, a possibility that some experts consider reasonable, although insufficient on its own to explain the speed of the collapse and the magnitude of the disaster.
Other analysts believe that an unconfirmed explosion could have occurred, perhaps caused by a storage problem, a defective handling, or a technical accident that triggered a chain reaction within a flight that transported extremely sensitive material.
That line of suspicion gained even more traction after comments emerged about the presence of vessels identified in the vicinity during the critical stage of the sinking, a detail still not fully confirmed but sufficiently disturbing to raise alarms.
If those vessels were there, what were they doing near a state military cargo? Were they casual witnesses, opportunistic actors, or pieces of a larger operation? These are questions that now circulate with an almost impossible force to understand.
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