Given that Prigozhin hadn’t been seen in public since sometime in July (and even that’s somewhat sketchy), who’s to say he hasn’t been dead for a while and the whole plane crash was just a huge spectacle and cover up?
I’m not particularly conspiracy minded or anything, but this seems pretty plausible to me given how it was clear he was a dead man walking, and Putin’s flair for drama and symbolism. (Such as the plane going down exactly two months after the failed coup.)
