This is TWA 800 all over again. They’d rather say it was Charizard the Fire Pokémon than admit it was downed by a SAM.
Why?
Because it was probably a US made weapon. Because the Russians can’t afford to make this conflict such that it completely shuts down the economy, or launches all out sanctions on Russia. They are barely making it right now. Putin is getting things done on the presumption nobody wants to go toe-to-toe with the Russians and launch WWIII (or WWIV if you count the last 10 years as a world war).
If this had been an American jet, Barry would have had it ruled as a fuel tank over pressurization explosion just like TWA 800.
I thought it was a YouTube video, what difference does it make?
Putin will now state there’s a red line that ISIS better not cross. \sarc
This is exactly what I thought when I first heard the details. Some member of the Muslim ground crew snuck that thing on board.
Bovine Excrement regarding a ‘planted bomb’.
It was a MANPAD, likely one of the THOUSANDS that Obama and Hillary were ‘walking’ out of the Benghazi Consulate into what became ISIS in Syria. (think Gunwalker, but with heavy weapons).
ISIS even posted a video (linked above by fella) that shows them blowing it out of the sky.