Malaysia airliner down over Ukraine - possible shootdown

[PaulS]

Actually there were 2 crashes. 1 after 9/11 which I believe they either blamed on the prop wash from another plane or the pilot had his flaps wrong???

The other was like 20 years ago over Long Island and I believe they blamed that on the short.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Actually there were 2 crashes. 1 after 9/11 which I believe they either blamed on the prop wash from another plane or the pilot had his flaps wrong???

The other was like 20 years ago over Long Island and I believe they blamed that on the short.

Yes - a couple months after 9/11 (which wound up suspicions pretty quick) an Airbus crashed after IIRC the tail fell off due to flying through the wake turbulence of a 747 that took off less than a minute before.

TWA 800 was concluded as the center fuel tank explosion likely caused by a short circuit from a frayed wire.