The helicopter was really reported close by, by eyewitnesses, the fighter plane also close by to the airbus, like, where's these guys testimony, and why were those first inital eyewitness reports being ignored now? Where's the statements from the crews on those military aircraft, they were even closer eyewitnesses in the area then the guys in the boats and on the ground when it all went down. Haven't heard an official peep from government about those eyewitnesses, nor heard any talking head ask any questions about them.
If I don't ask it, someone else is going to remember and ask it, and never been a-skeered of a tinfoil label, never. It really is simple, the still alive eyewitnesses who were in closest proximity to the airbus at the start of the incident are remaining un-quoted and ignored by the press, just wondering what their story is. I offered a possible explanation, which is not all that farfetched. there is precedent, iranair is one example, twa800 *might* be another example.
Just a rhetorical question, doesn't require an answer, but last year,just a year ago, would you have believed a 'shoot down" order on civil aircraft from the government, instead of just arming the pilots and crew? In a perceived emergency? "Shoot down" means shoot down. The nation is jumpy, these military protectors are jumpy, signals can get crossed, stuff happens. I know a guy misread a number over a radio, just a number, up and down the c and c chain it went, all the way to a pretty spectacular "friendly fire" episode. stuff happens.
This is a possibility, and I wonder aloud about it because the closest eyewitnesses are not being questioned about it, the government has not even offered a synopsis of what they might have seen, which you would think they would have been extremely fast to do, but they haven't done so. One leads to the other. If they haven't, 'why not"? they didn't see anything? Doubt that. If they saw the plane just start breaking up in flight, what's the odds joe government would be crowing about what they saw? Odds are highly in that favor you would think. Instead, nothing, no reports from those pilots or crew, even massaged reports.