I realize that just about everybody assumes that Putin had Prigozhin killed. He might have but what strikes me is the long list of people who wanted him dead. Did anyone not want him dead?
I think that for reasonability deniability if no other reason that it’s more likely that Sergei Shoigu of the Russian Ministry of Defense had Prigozhin’s aircraft shot down. IMO he was more of a threat to Shoigu than he was to Putin.
Update
I continue to hear all sorts of theories about the downing of the aircraft. The most convincing argument that I have heard against Putin having been behind it is that if Putin had wanted him dead he would have been killed earlier and in a less messy fashion. The wildest idea I have heard is that NOONE was on the plane; it was controlled remotely and destroyed to throw Western intelligence into a frenzy. If that was the objective, mission accomplished.
While Putin is an obvious suspect, there are many others: France (Niger), the US (Niger and other reasons), UK (S&G), Ukraine, rogue Russian military (the mutiny shoot downs), other Wagner execs (Prigozhin gone rogue).
Or maybe it was just an accident.