The Russian military officer serving as the leader of the Russian mercenaries in the Ukraine was bragging online about how they used a SAM to shoot down another Ukrainian aircraft into a garbage heap, until they realized they shot down the Malaysian airliner instead. Then they went into full coverup mode and tried to scrub the Internet to hide their previous comments on their webpages.
“They” are now saying the pro Russian separatists don’t have a missile with that range. The leader “thought” they had shot down a military plane so he was taking credit for the “kill”. In other words, propaganda.
Since all the media does is speculate I’m going to do some speculatin’. I think the pilot crashed it on purpose. Why?No smoke trail and not communication with the pilot as the plane was dropping.