Pretty sure this plan was shot at. Just saying.
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Whatever was used to shoot at the plan likely missed the shot and hit somewhere on the plane. It was meant to cause catastrophic failure and bring the whole plane down, but it failed to do so. They probably hit the wrong spot or something occurred to mess up the shot.
At that point, Q and team decided to play ball and say that the person died. They might not have even died. If I was going to venture on a wild guess, the assassination attempt failed and the target is now safely in custody.
But it's pretty much conjecture at this point.
I said in last bread, but the engine failure was probably not an engine failure. Nothing about the engine failure makes sense to other anons who say that they have experience.
Whether if it's true that they have experience or not is up for discussion.
However, that plane was likely shot at. The plane was supposed to go down and didn't.