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Malaysian passenger plane crashes in Ukraine near Russian border: Ifax
Reuters ^ | 17 July 2014 | Alissa de Carbonne

Posted on 07/17/2014 8:24:22 AM PDT by CMB_polarization

A Malaysian passenger airliner with 295 people on board crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border, Interfax cited an aviation industry source as saying on Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aviation; crash; malaysia; malaysianairlines; mh17; mh370; reset; russia; ukraine
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To: CMB_polarization

Streaming reports

http://rt.com/on-air/rt-america-air/

http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/b6215.htm
[RT American]


61 posted on 07/17/2014 8:50:53 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: CMB_polarization

Looking at the Malaysia Airlines international route map, the flight was almost certainly headed to Europe. The map doesn’t show any of those routes flying over the Russia-Ukraine border but perhaps that’s due to projecting the routes on a flat map rather than a globe.
62 posted on 07/17/2014 8:51:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: CMB_polarization

Obviously another mechanical accidental electrical center fuel tank explosion.

Nothing to see here.

Move along.


63 posted on 07/17/2014 8:51:18 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Someone posted air to air. Air to air makes more sense. Of course the Russian military is more then capable of making the shot, but one would think the Russian military would ID the plane as a cruising commercial jetliner. Dido air to air, maybe an on board bomb?


64 posted on 07/17/2014 8:51:25 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: lodi90

So... a simple ‘oops’ is going to be accepted here?


65 posted on 07/17/2014 8:51:42 AM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: lodi90
Image from the Tweet you linked to:


66 posted on 07/17/2014 8:51:52 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: jpsb
It would take a pretty good missile to shoot down a 777 at 35,000 ft traveling 500 knts.

First thing that popped into my mind also. One of the original news breaks identified it as “ a hand held missile”. I know some of Freepers are very familiar with this technology, is it possible to bring down an airliner with a hand held? Or does it require a much more sophisticated system?

67 posted on 07/17/2014 8:52:03 AM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: CMB_polarization

RT American:

Malaysian Airlines confirms by Twitter that one of their planes is ‘lost’.

==

Presumption that all aboard have died.


68 posted on 07/17/2014 8:52:33 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: SeekAndFind; Cap Huff

Coming from Europe...


69 posted on 07/17/2014 8:52:33 AM PDT by Dog (Founding member of the Osama Bin Laden was alive the whole time club..)
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To: TomGuy

It’s being reported on a CBS radio station here that a missile brought it down.


70 posted on 07/17/2014 8:52:47 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: lodi90
The Fingerpointing Begins: Ukraine Accuses Rebels Of Shooting Down Airplane, Rebels Deny

*UKRAINE REBELS SHOT DOWN MALAYSIAN PLANE, GERASHCHENKO SAYS; But

*DONETSK SEPARATISTS SAY NOT INVOLVED IN PLANE CRASH: INTERFAX

All 280 passengers and 15 crew were killed in the crash. The Malaysian Airlines jet was shot down by the BUK Missile System according to Interfax.

(BUK Missile System according to Wiki altitude range of 25k.)

71 posted on 07/17/2014 8:52:57 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: lodi90

Prayers for those on board, any word on where they were heading?


72 posted on 07/17/2014 8:53:42 AM PDT by mware
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To: Uncle Chip

Missile—thats what Skynews is reporting according to Ukraine minister of something


73 posted on 07/17/2014 8:53:49 AM PDT by two23
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To: jpsb

Another “Sinking of the RMS Lusitania” type controversy. Whether or not Russia did it, the ball is in Putin’s court.


74 posted on 07/17/2014 8:53:53 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Cyman

MANPADs could do it...stinger maybe.


75 posted on 07/17/2014 8:54:07 AM PDT by Dog (Founding member of the Osama Bin Laden was alive the whole time club..)
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To: lodi90
The forgotten story of Iran Air Flight 655--

Toward the end of the war, on July 3, 1988, a U.S. Navy ship called the Vincennes was exchanging fire with small Iranian ships in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. Navy kept ships there, and still does, to protect oil trade routes. As the American and Iranian ships skirmished, Iran Air Flight 655 took off from nearby Bandar Abbas International Airport, bound for Dubai. The airport was used by both civilian and military aircraft. The Vincennes mistook the lumbering Airbus A300 civilian airliner for a much smaller and faster F-14 fighter jet, perhaps in the heat of battle or perhaps because the flight allegedly did not identify itself. It fired two surface-to-air missiles, killing all 290 passengers and crew members on board.

76 posted on 07/17/2014 8:54:10 AM PDT by kabar
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To: ScaniaBoy

Don’t suppose this is what happened to flight 370?


77 posted on 07/17/2014 8:54:39 AM PDT by wdk535
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To: C19fan
Petroleum and heating fuel is going to go sky high in Europe.
78 posted on 07/17/2014 8:55:04 AM PDT by mware
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To: CMB_polarization

You have to be kidding me. Shot down is what I heard. Is that confirmed?


79 posted on 07/17/2014 8:56:41 AM PDT by yield 2 the right
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To: SeekAndFind

KLM flies a very similar route on their Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/KLM809/history/20140716/1850Z/EHAM/WMKK


80 posted on 07/17/2014 8:56:55 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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