Malaysia airliner down over Ukraine - possible shootdown

[Raven]

seems like that jet liner that exploded leaving New York never got resolved.
i've heard stories that flight 370 was landed in desert in Saudi Arabia and the 17 people on board from one company killed. surgical strike

this 777 might have been mistaken Identity...
which Pilot's have to give consideration for....

it's not like the terrorist's are just going to ask them what's on board before they press the launch button.

[JohnR]

Craig - the other plane is at the bottom of the ocean. This one is in a field in the Ukraine.

Awful for the families of both

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Raven

seems like that jet liner that exploded leaving New York never got resolved.

I thought that they said a short in a wire caused the fuel tank to explode.

[Cool Beans]

Major: "These are Chernukhin folks who shot down the plane. From the Chernukhin check point. Those cossacks who are based in Chernukhino."

Grek: "Yes, Major."

Major: "The plane fell apart in the air. In the area of Petropavlovskaya mine. The first '200' [code word for dead person]. We have found the first '200.' A Civilian."

Greek: "Well, what do you have there?"

Major: "In short, it was 100 percent a passenger [civilian] aircraft."

Greek: "Are many people there?"

Major: "Holy [expletive]! The debris fell right into the yards [of homes]."

In a third intercepted conversation released by the SBU — which the agency says took place about 40 minutes after insurgents seemed to realize they had shot down a civilian plane — Cossack commander Nikolay Kozitsin tells an unidentified separatist that the fact the Malaysia Airlines plane was flying over the combat zone likely meant it was carrying spies.

"That means they were carrying spies," Kozitsin allegedly says. "They shouldn’t be [expletive] flying. There is a war going on."