Posted on 09/09/2014 12:46:36 PM PDT by McGruff
Edited on 09/09/2014 1:17:15 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was destroyed in an instant when the cockpit and other parts of the fuselage were peppered by "a large number of high-energy objects," causing the plane to break apart over eastern Ukraine before anyone could raise an alarm, according to a preliminary report on the disaster which was released on Tuesday.
The report by the Dutch Safety Board (DSB), does not speculate on the origin or nature of objects, noting its investigators have not been able to visit the crash site because their security could not be guaranteed in the midst of the conflict between Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatist forces.
The findings are consistent with US and Ukrainian assertions the Boeing 777, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was brought down by an anti-aircraft missile, which they say was provided by Russia. However, some air-to-air missiles also have fragmentation warheads which spray small shrapnel when they detonate close to a target.
The DSB report rules out other possible causes for the crash, which killed all 298 people on board, saying: "There are no indications that the MH17 crash was caused by a technical fault or by actions of the crew." It found that the shrapnel came from outside the plane and hit the cockpit above the level of the floor, implying it sheared through the space occupied by the pilots. The front parts of the plane broke away first, leaving the rest of the aircraft to fly on for some distance, with parts of the rear and centre ending up miles further east than the cockpit.
The US and Ukraine have accused separatists of shooting down the plane with a surface-to-air BUK missile, which explodes near its target, peppering it with high-velocity shrapnel. Moscow has denied the charge, pointing instead at the Ukrainian air force.
Rebel leaders have by turns admitted and denied possessing a BUK system.
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It found that the shrapnel came from outside the plane and hit the cockpit above the level of the floor, implying it sheared through the space occupied by the pilots.
Continuous rod warhead, as in SAM ...
Meteor shower?... :)
Well at least the pilots were spared the long ride down.
Provided by,manned by,fired by.The BBC showed irrefutable proof not long after the incident.
Malaysia should immediately revoke all landing rights to any and all Russian origin aircraft , and cancel any flight routes they have to Russia .
Center fuel tank.
put them to work on MH470 now
Proximity-fused v contact-fused? I remember the terms from the TWA-800 website debate, long ago.
“It found that the shrapnel came from outside the plane and hit the cockpit above the level of the floor, implying it sheared through the space occupied by the pilots.”
The millions of dollars spent on the investigation were not at all wasted as we have learned that the pilots of such planes occupy the plane’s cockpit.
Those darn separatists are being blamed.
Maybe someone was taking Biden’s advice and shooting a shotgun in the air.
[ Proximity-fused v contact-fused? I remember the terms from the TWA-800 website debate, long ago. ]
Sometimes I wonder if TWA 800 was a terrorist attack that the clinton admin covered up....
Then i think if 9/11 happened on clinton’s watch if they would chalk up the crashig of multiple planes into the buildings as fall out of Regan firing anll those air traffic controllers in the early 1980’s instead of islamists....
Then I think, yeah the clintoons would probably do that....
A modern blunderbuss.
Not that the current administration would try to do that with Benghazi.
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