[Thrass]

Yes.

[Aryeonos]

A 3 dimensional image of the aircraft, undamaged and in flight lays paused, the terrain around it reconstructed. The aircraft is flying less than a few hundred meters over the ground, it whizzes over a lake bearing north east, ever so gently banking. As the video begins to play Audio from the CVR can be heard. Through manipulating the virtual camera one is able to see the outlying terrain as far out as the aircraft's cameras will allow. A faint array of cones radiating outward from several points on the aircraft outline the Tupelov's vantage points. Though the speed at which the aircraft is traveling makes fine detail around it rather blurry. As the aircraft begins to pass near the mouth of the water, a blurry bright orange white light streaks towards it, originating somewhere out to the south, south east. The light has very high ultraviolet and infrared signatures, far outside the aircraft's spectral range for detection. In just a few frames the light has traveled several kilometers, it is at this point that its RCS is visible very briefly. As the light comes up near the empennage and jet exhaust it blossoms into a violent white and yellow ring, the last image in the scene is of a solid vaporous yellow disk, its edges thick with crenelated vapour. The recording stops at this point, the tracking bar at its end.

[Thrass]

Butcher virtually scratches his head and tries to identify which kind of missile this could've been, based on speed, trajectory temperature, at which the fuel burnt and the damage done as well as any other infos they have:
rolling knowledge firearsm heavy weapons, to identify the missile (11d6.hits(5)=5)

[Aryeonos]

Though it would be impossible to identify the projectile without better cameras, its characteristics, and the distance it travels over just a few frames; would show that it was a super sonic, air intercept, long range missile. The angle at which it flies indicates that it was fired from the ground most likely, despite how bright it was though, and the lack of image clarity, the plume was quite dim and lacked a smoke contrail; this would be characteristic of a minimum signature fuel. The disk shaped explosion and proximity to the exhaust is characteristic of air intercept missiles, and other ground to air missiles.

[Thrass]

Definitely a ground to air missile, one of the expensive kind.

Nexus overlay the missile path and the chem trail we found earlier.

[Aryeonos]

A region is highlighted within the simulation indicating the general bounds of the highest concentrations of the chemical residue.

[Thrass]

Wow, suddenly most of my theories are blown apart.

The "safe route" and the original/estimated route are both equally well inside the attack zone, so if it is a setup the didn't use the safe route for a trap.

When the direction of the wind fit's the chemical residue is just the natural expansion pattern, so the didn't drag something out that left residues.

2 questions come to my mind: a) can we deduct if the chemical residue amounts to all the oil that the plane has loaded?
Would help if we actually knew how much there was.
b) was there anything else they took


Making a knowledge chemistry check to "guess"  the amount of oil burned based on the geographical expansion pattern.

chemistry check (4d6.hits(5)=2)

[Aryeonos]

Without knowing precisely how much oil was burned it would be difficult to judge how far its particulate matter would spread, however, the chemical residue from the oil does not match the particulate matter found in the expansion region. Given the contained nature of the burn inside, it's safe to assume they are not directly related.

[HydroRaven]

"I'll have a look at the birth" announces Fisher before making his way downstairs.

[Sichr]

I got your 6

[Kouryuu]

While most discuss and chatter about how the plane was shot down, who might have done it and why, Red Spent time looking around the plane for any traces of recent movements in the snow.

INT 5 + Perception 4 + 2 Visual specialisation + 3 enchantments (14d6.hits(5)=7)

[Aryeonos]

Inside the aircraft the pair of soldiers push open the dented door to the lower cabin, inside lay battered remains of what look like shelves, though it's terribly dark. Bits and pieces of electronics, and small containers, battered and broken, lay strewn about. The remaining crew must lay somewhere within.

Outside the plane, the wind has yet to abate. Guarding himself from frostbite Red crouches into a minor indentation in the ground, a little too long, and a little too symmetrical. Standing up and looking into the distance the ever so subtle indentation of tracks can be made out through the mounds of gravel and stone.

[Kouryuu]

"Guys, i have tracks here, leading away " Red said over the com, taking his sniper rifle from his back. and satrting to use the Scope and vision magnification to find where the tracks lead. in the meantime sending out a few UWB pulses to be sure there is no one behind him.

INT 5 + Perception 4 + 2 Visual specialisation + 3 enchantments (14d6.hits(5)=5)

[HydroRaven]

"I think we just found where the last crew members held out, bokkie" says Fisher to Nina. "Guys, someone might want to come here and have a look at this."

[Aryeonos]

Through the sweeping wind Red holds his rifle steady, lacerating cold biting at his stiff fingers. It`s a chore just to squeeze them around the rifle grips. Tracing the direction of the indentations, their faint pattern stretches on down the beach head to the south, towards the salt mires at the mouth of the river.