MH17 was the, "Wrong plane," says Ukrainian fighter pilot after shootdown.

[NuclearDem]

88. "The source is not anonymous"

The witness, who chose to remain anonymous, told Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP) daily that a pilot of a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet was behind the MH17 flight downing on July 17. He claimed that the pilot used air-to-air missiles to shoot down the Malaysian Boeing, which he concludes was probably mistaken for a military plane.

and that a plane must be fully loaded in order to shoot a rocket at another plane sounds slightly off the mark, player.

First, get your technical details right. Missiles and rockets are not the same thing, and if the pilot had managed to hit MH17 with a rocket, he's a goddamn marksman the likes of which the world has never seen.

Second, any missiles installed on an aircraft's hard points create drag for the aircraft. Even one can keep an aircraft from reaching its maximum ceiling, and since the maximum ceiling for even the highest climbing Su-25 is still below MH17's altitude at the time, there's simply no way the fighter could have had a position to fire on it. You install even one missile on an aircraft like the Su-25, it's not going to be doing 10,000 meters.

And who said anything about an Su-25 "being sent to intercept a target"?

Ground attack aircraft and civilian airliners don't just happen upon each other at their very different cruising altitudes. It's clear you don't know how ATC works, but someone had to tell the Su-25 pilot about the aircraft flying at least ten thousand feet above it and direct it.

And even if Ukraine wanted to intercept the aircraft, they know the air-to-air limitations of the Su-25 and would have sortied any one of their more than 50 MiG-29s or Su-27s, their dedicated air superiority fighters, to intercept it.

So, the tl;dr version: You don't have a clue what you're talking about.