Bodies rained down on Ukraine village after plane disaster

Reuters ^ | July 18, 2014 | BY ANTON ZVEREV

[Oldeconomybuyer]

First came the loud explosion that made buildings rattle: then it started raining bodies.

One of the corpses fell through the rickety roof of Irina Tipunova's house in this sleepy village, just after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 exploded high over eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists are fighting government forces.

"There was a howling noise and everything started to rattle. Then objects started falling out of the sky," the 65-year-old pensioner said in front of her grey-brick home.

"And then I heard a roar and she landed in the kitchen, the roof was broken," she said, showing the gaping hole made by the body when it came through the ceiling of the kitchen in an extension to the house.

The dead woman's naked body was still lying inside the house, next to a bed.

[Calusa]

Putin may have bungled his way to a win by choking off the most direct air route from the West to Oz, India and SE Asia. There will be a lot of mincing and moaning but in the end the Russian bear will be appeased, accommodation will be achieved and that lady on C-SPAN will attend that wedding in Australia. Air travel will not be disrupted. Game Set Match Putin.

#realpolitik.

Samantha Powers just unleashed another Children's Crusade -- (I) for Infant -- Vlad is shaking in his nibs. Great Drama, Sam,

[dfwgator]

What stupid hashtags are the State Department going to come up with for this one?

[Lx]

You’d be nervous too if you were even indirectly involved in such killing and I don’t think he’s indirect either.

I remember when President Reagen played the tapes of the fighter pilot who shot down KAL007, it was chilling. That was in ‘83, I’m sure we have all the communications of everyone involved. I’m also sure we’ll never hear it all, not without a President like Reagan.

As someone else said, it sure sounds like right out of Revelation, not just this one event but things that have happened recently.

[RayChuang88]

Yep, the whole scene is right out of what happened over Lockerbie--only worse because the plane was brought down by a explosive warhead from a missile many times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. That's why the debris field is so unusually large.

My contention this shootdown was a horrible case if mistaken identity might be more right than people think. The current operational version of the 9K37 Buk battlefield SAM system is a very sophisticated piece of military hardware, and the separatists who operated it may not have the proper training to make sure the missile wasn't tracking a non-military target.

[greatvikingone]

How did she lose her clothes? I saw a man’s body on the ground with no shirt and no burn marks - so I assumed he was a victim on the ground and not on the plane. Can someone explain how the clothes disappear?

[Biggirl]

I doubt if the tapes will ever come out on this one, not right now that is.

[Romulus]

There are lots of good reasons to like Putin, but he owns this catastrophe, brought about by his paramilitary goons.

You can be sure today Putin is studying the US response to the Iran Air shootdown by USS Vincennes. We paid reparations. I believe there was an expression of regret, but no admission of fault. Captain and crew came out of the investigation clean and got the usual medals at the end of their tour of duty. Eight months later the captain was transferred to a shore assignment. Perhaps he was seen to be imprudent and needlessly provocative (as alleged by the commander of another US warship). In any case, he never commanded a ship again and retired two years later.

[wideawake]

Have you seen what stress diving out of an airplane puts on heavy, designed-for-the-purpose flight suits?

Even when they are decelerated by a parachute?

Imagine what the wind does to any lightweight casual clothing on a body plummeting at full speed - especially when that body isn't tensed up because the person is unconscious/dead.

Wind will peel it right off.

[mylife]

LOL!

[Freeport]

Which is EXACTLY where it is... Have you not looked at a map?

[greatvikingone]

Didn’t think about that - thank you.

[atc23]

I would say that since there is no tactical or strategic advantage whatsoever in shooting down a commercial jet full of people, it was obviously a case of a trigger happy SAM crew

[Celtic Conservative]

Blown or burned off, plus wind resistance from 33,000 feet tearing what remained off. Just a guess. Plus the body going from motionless to 600+ Mph in the blink of an eye as the body is thrown from the plane into the slipstream.

CC

[jpsb]

Re graphic. Thank You.

[MaxMax]

Look at History, a major war is due. The third world countries need to
lower their population in order to maintain socialism. The Dems will walk right
into it like a brick wall. Then Americans will elect the Adults to fight it,
and the Dems will Blame Repubs for everything, and failure, as Americans get bored
with the War and re-elect Dems to pull out.

WW3 will be the most deadly like nothing our generation will have ever witnessed.
I expect that 1-billion lives will be lost. China needs a population control excuse also.

Then there will be peace for another 30-60 years. Rinse repeat.

[jpsb]

The best option for whoever did this is confess and admit a terrible mistake was made.

[Rennes Templar]

Amateurish in that can’t tell a commercial liner from a military cargo plane...

Re Hamas, excellent article by Krauthammer...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-moral-clarity-in-gaza/2014/07/17/0adabe0c-0de4-11e4-8c9a-923ecc0c7d23_story.html

[jpsb]

Plus the bodies exited the aircraft at over 500 mph. Not much can withstand 500 mph wind.

[Longbow1969]

There are lots of good reasons to like Putin

What are these good reasons to like Putin?

He's basically retarded any chance that any sort of real representative, democratically minded government can take hold in Russia. He is acting, at best, as a strategic adversary towards us throughout much of the world. He seems to believe it was a great tragedy that the USSR collapsed, which doesn't bode well for what he thinks Russia ought to look like in the future - and whether it should attempt to re-assemble it's empire of the unwilling. Putin is investing lots of money to make a larger fraction of his military 1st world quality, which rightly terrifies the USSR's former occupied satellite states such as Poland, Latvia, etc. He uses his veto (along with China) to block us on the UN Security Council at every turn - whether we are dealing with some North Korea provocation or just about anything else.

I'm just not seeing all that many good reasons to like Putin. I think he's smart, we have been able to cooperate with him on more things than many people may think, he seems to be positioning himself as some kind of defender of traditionalist values (though it's hard to tell whether this is anything more than an act), etc.

Overall, Putin is probably going to wind up having been a net negative for the Russian people and the rest of the world.

You can be sure today Putin is studying the US response to the Iran Air shootdown by USS Vincennes.

Well, I guess the reminder that we've done it too is fair game. Actually, to be really fair, Russia is likely once removed from this Malaysian shoot-down and we weren't with the Iranian Airbus. Additionally, the hyperbole of this being a terrorist attack is silly, nobody meant to shoot this down as it severely damages the separatists and Putin's cause. Still, they did it and ultimately the blame does rest with Putin for choosing to fund and arm this bunch of goons as you correctly put it.

[wideawake]

Good point - didn't even think of that.

Also, typical skydives are usually from about 8,000-10,000 feet, right? This was at 33,000.

That's a lot more per second/per second.