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

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167. The closest I ever came to the aviation industry

was when I visited my uncle in the small sailplane factory he worked for, many, many years ago. They built stuff like that:



And no, I know next to nothing about planes and have never pretended I do, in stark contrast to a number of posters here with their sweeping claims even I can recognize as biased, misleading and sometimes outright false.

The "self-styled expert" I was quoting is Jeffrey Ethell:

"I've flown it. And I was very impressed. I was the first Western pilot to fly the airplane. And, the reason? Nobody wants to fly it. Naah, it's a Su-25, same thing as an old A-10, who wants to fly that. ..." (9:28-9:45)

Look, I don't need to "grasp at straws", I didn't make any sweeping claims like "the SU-25 is just too slow", or that it cannot possibly reach the height of 10 kilometers and so forth. I am not the one assuming, for no reason, that the plane would have had to be fully loaded with ground attack weapons if and when it attacked the airliner, nor do I try to imagine magic scenarios like what some yahoos may or may not have been able to accomplish or what may have been on their mind at some point or other.

The issue has been debated repeatedly, the arguments on all sides are readily available for everyone who wants to know. What's new is that someone came forward who claims to have witnessed that

a) air-to-air missiles were mounted on some Su-25 that were flying sorties during the week of the MH17 crash,
b) on the day of the crash a returning Su-25 that had left with such missiles no longer had them,
c) the pilot of that plane made some strange remarks

Those who allow for the possibility that one or several Su-25 had something to do with the crash will see this as further evidence which should be investigated, those who have made up their mind obviously don't.