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After this discussion, my understanding is that glare and bloom are similar effects, caused by dispersion of strong light sources. Bloom encompasses in-camera phenomena (sensor/film and optics), glare indicates phenomena outside the camera (usually atmospheric). Other in-camera artefacts...

https://www.icao.int/Newsroom/NewsDoc2022/ICAO-Fact-Sheet_Accident_Investigation%2520-%25202022-04.pdf

It's Embraer representatives as well as the Brasilian accident investigation agency, the latter should have access to the full investigation per ICAO, and they'll publicly complain if not. There are going to be detailed pictures of the wreckage, and again, CENIPA will complain if they can't see...

I think that's what we're all wondering about.

Ukrainian forces conducted a limited raid on the western shore of occupied Crimea on August 24. Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) posted footage and announced that Ukrainian forces landed on the shores near Olenivka and Mayak (both 116km northeast of Sevastopol).[47] The GUR...

Not really. The newer any report is, the more it suffers from "fog of war", i.e. it may be incomplete or false. However, with time, facts settle down. And nowadays, facts come with photographs. I've written a post on ISW before that I can't find right now, but I've found understandingwar.org a...

best speculation I could find: Sources close to the group say there were plans afoot, led by the deputy director of Russia’s GRU military intelligence unit, to replace much of Wagner with a parallel mercenary group. Prigozhin was said to be furiously resisting this and rushed back from Mali to...

if it was missing in the video, it has to be missing on the ground We've been dealing with TicTacs here on a regular basis which are pixel blobs without wings, where existing wings are invisible because of the angle or because they're so brightly lit that the compression algorithm thinks...

wrt film, it includes the lens What is Bloom The Bloom term is commonly used to define the combined effect of bright light dispersion on the boundaries of contrasting image areas, which originates in the optical system, and then is distorted and amplified in the multiple layers of the...

You put the original image left and the transformed image right, and then you get a "tilt" stereo effect.

yes, but the aircraft is likely not 9M-MRO if it's real footage, and it would probably have been taken some time before.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-66599774 US Defense Department spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder is now addressing members of the media at a Pentagon briefing. Asked about the Wagner leader, Gen Ryder says that the initial assessment from the Pentagon is that Yevgeny Prigozhin was...

This is an Embraer Legacy 600 (EMB-135BJ). I expect that if an engine or the APU explodes, the tail might come loose. The debris will tell.

ntsb accident report "wing separation" TWA 800, July 17 1996, Boeing 747-131, fuel tank exploded over the Atlantic 3 Beech T-34A had wing separations, but they were performing manoeuvers at the time. We can't rule that out here; if big boss Prigozhin enters the cockpit and says, "let's do a...

The BBC liveblog page had a video that their verification team allegedly checked out. It has one longer shot from farther away, and then switched to a closer position, so I assumed that these were two different witness videos spliced together. Have the people who claim it's from another crash...

The tail broke off in the air, apparently. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-66599774 Prigozhin's aircraft - an Embraer-135 (EBM-135BJ Legacy 600) - was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg with seven passengers and three crew, Russia's Rosaviatsia aviation authority said. Embraer, the...

no, what he's saying is that if you deform for the cumulus clouds and compute the difference, the cirrus clouds would stand out; and vice versa. But as it is, nothing stands out; so either those clouds are at the same altitude (metereologically impossible), or the image was flat to begin with.

Yes, but if that is true, the jet has to rotate with the glare later, doesn't it?

Yes, exactly. I see it as supplying you with information you don't yet have. That's always a bit of a stab in the dark, as we both don't know exactly what it is that you don't know yet. You've clearly put some thought into this and are articulating your questions well, so it's fun—no need to...

The video shows so little detail that I couldn't be sure the other wing isn't invisible because it's brightly lit. I also don't see it fall separately. It is obvious that the aircraft is completely out of control. The other image seems to show the separation more clearly. If a wing separated...