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In reply to the discussion: MH17 crash: Dutch experts say numerous objects hit plane [View all]parkia00
(583 posts)80. Here for one.
Beyond confirming that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 apparently was shot down on July 17, the Dutch Safety Boards interim investigative report answered few questions, including some that would seem easy to address, such as the Russian military radar purporting to show a Ukrainian SU-25 jetfighter in the area, a claim that the Kiev government denied.
Either the Russian radar showed the presence of a jetfighter gaining height as it closed to within three to five kilometers of the passenger plane as the Russians claimed in a July 21 press conference or it didnt. The Kiev authorities insisted that they had no military aircraft in the area at the time.
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/09/malaysia-airlines-whodunnit-still-a-mystery/
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If you bother to read it. Lots on a easy Google search if you bother to search it. For seconds or thirds, there are many sources out there more relevant than RT. Heck even they threw the Ukrainian fighter scenario for those who like to chew those bones. Remember earlier it was supposed to be an blotched assassination of dear Puti but the silly Kiev government got the target mixed up....
Then again it's possible for the Su-25 to shoot at the Boeing from over 12,000 feet away from below with it's 30mm cannons, have the bullets fly pass the plane, do a 180 turn and strike from above. Either that or the MH17 was flying upside down. Do you really still want to flog this dead horse? I mean the horse is really dead. It has rotten leaving a carcass and you are on it screaming "Giddy Up Horsie! Yeee Haww!
Either the Russian radar showed the presence of a jetfighter gaining height as it closed to within three to five kilometers of the passenger plane as the Russians claimed in a July 21 press conference or it didnt. The Kiev authorities insisted that they had no military aircraft in the area at the time.
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/09/malaysia-airlines-whodunnit-still-a-mystery/
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If you bother to read it. Lots on a easy Google search if you bother to search it. For seconds or thirds, there are many sources out there more relevant than RT. Heck even they threw the Ukrainian fighter scenario for those who like to chew those bones. Remember earlier it was supposed to be an blotched assassination of dear Puti but the silly Kiev government got the target mixed up....
Then again it's possible for the Su-25 to shoot at the Boeing from over 12,000 feet away from below with it's 30mm cannons, have the bullets fly pass the plane, do a 180 turn and strike from above. Either that or the MH17 was flying upside down. Do you really still want to flog this dead horse? I mean the horse is really dead. It has rotten leaving a carcass and you are on it screaming "Giddy Up Horsie! Yeee Haww!
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No more and no less than you already know the Ukrainian Air Force did it...
LanternWaste
Sep 2014
#84
Could be. The evidence of whether it was cannon fire or an exploding missile warhead may be resting
pampango
Sep 2014
#29
No, air to air missiles use proximity warheads to explode near the target to destroy it.
happyslug
Sep 2014
#35
Why argue now about something that esoteric and open to interrpretation . . .
another_liberal
Sep 2014
#53
But it's necessary to ramp up the public's emotions against Russia NOW!
another_liberal
Sep 2014
#20
It supports the general theory that a ground-to-air missile hit it
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2014
#45
Or if one side were somehow supplied a Buk system from one of those countries.
Tommy_Carcetti
Sep 2014
#75
So the rebels were lying when they claimed to shoot down Ukrainian fighters? (nt)
jeff47
Sep 2014
#68
It is NOT editorializing to report what the report says AND to add that it is consistent with
karynnj
Sep 2014
#87
It is ridiculous - and the reason is that you are being very simplistic and are holding onto RT lies
karynnj
Sep 2014
#89