Posted on 04/29/2013 2:17:07 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
Two missiles have been fired at a Russian passenger plane flying over Syria, according to Russian media.
About 160 people were on board the charter aircraft at the time of the attack, the origin of which remains unknown, a source told the Interfax news agency.
An unnamed source is understood to have said: "Syrian (officials) informed us that on Monday morning, unidentified forces launched two ground-to-air missiles which exploded in the air very close to a civilian aircraft belonging to a Russian airline."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Well, refresh my memory. Where did those 10,000 shoulder-launched, surface to air missiles go after the Moslem takeover of the American Benghazi compound?
bttt
IIRC, the CIA agents killed in Benghazi were looking for missing MANPADSs
nothing to see here move along,, it was just a wedding party shooting off a few.. middle east fireworks, coming soon to a sporting event near you..
Benghazi connection?
They better be careful. The Russians aren’t all girly PC like we are. The Russians wouldn’t blink an eye to just simultaneously blow up every mosque in the country with bombs loaded with pig fat. The UN might send the Russians a strongly worded letter, but that is all that would happen.
Unlike our faggot halfbreed @1600, the Russians are just liable to kick some sand.rat ass
I’m not sure which is more dangerous: Flying over Syria, or flying in a Russian aircraft.
Yeah, should we ever grow a pair, an iron rain of AGM-154 JSOWs (aka smart pigs) might be just the ticket.
MANPADS number was not 10,000 -it was 21,000.
But both? Those passengers had some ‘nads.
They should do that today. I’ve got a big flat screen TV, surround sound, etc. Should be one hell of a show.
According to another article it was an Airbus A320.
"...The plane that was allegedly targeted belonged to Nordwind Airlines – a Russian charter air carrier – and was identified as an Airbus A320. On April 29 it was en route to the city of Kazan, in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, from Egypt's resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh..."
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What difference does it make?
From the RT article above:
"So far, there are no grounds to claim that the aircraft became a target of a missile attack, experts say.
It was flying over a mountainous area in Syria when one of the pilots noticed “flashes on the ground.” After that, to keep safe, it was decided to increase the height of the flight, Irina Tyurina, a spokeswoman for Russian Union of Tourist Industry told RIA Novosti.
YOU try that flight!
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