Yevgeny Prigozhin was on Putin's most wanted hitlist

As is so often the case with Putin revenge operations, many questions have still to be answered over the reported death of Yevgeny Prigozhin. If he was on board the private business plane which hurtled to the ground with black smoke trailing behind, then he is definitely dead. But you have to ask, knowing he was top of Putin's hitlist why would be risk travelling in a plane with his senior staff en route to St Petersburg where he has his palatial residence? Maybe, just maybe, he got complacent. Two months had gone by after his bizarre mutiny against the Kremlin establishment (ie Putin) was called off before he and his armoured vehicles reached Moscow. Did he honestly think he had been let off the hook? When Putin calls someone a traitor, as he did Prigozhin, there can surely be no doubt in anyone's mind that the named traitor will come to a sticky end whether it be immediately or two months or two years later. After all he waited eight years before he sent assassins to Salisbury to try and fatally poison Sergei Skripal, former Russian intelligence officer, and his daughter Yulia. Skripal had betrayed Russia by giving secrets to MI6 and was swapped in a spy exchange in 2010. Amazingly he survived the assassination attempt. But for the rest of his life he will have to be protected by MI6. When Putin says revenge he means revenge. So back to Prigozhin, surely he cannot have fooled himself that Putin would go all soft and cuddly suddenly and forgive him for daring to mutiny against him and his inner circle? There has to be a tiny possibility that he wasn't on the plane but the Kremlin will never admit this even when the post mortems are carried out on the ten passengers. So Prigozhin will be "dead" even if he wasn't killed on the plane. But working on the theory he WAS on the doomed plane, will we ever find out what happened? Was it a bomb on board, hidden in a box of fine wines, as some reports suggest, or was the plane shot down from the ground? Either way, judging by the video images, whatever happened was sudden and catastrophic. So not a malfunctioning engine or a flight of seagulls at 30,000ft. If it was a bomb how on earth did the perpetrators get it on board without arousing suspicion among the three bodyguards who were listed on the manifest? The Kremlin will eventually come up with their conclusion which will run something like this: "After an exhaustive investigation it would seem there was an engineering defect in one of the gear boxes which caused a catastrophic implosion. The tragic deaths of all those on board was therefore as a result of a mechanical fault. The company that leased the aircraft has been closed down and the owner arrested and charged with manslaughter. Long live Vladimir Putin."