Buehrle>Wood Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Reuters Top News @Reuters 1m #BREAKING: Malaysian plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile: Interior Ministry adviser, quoted by Interfax Reuters Top News @Reuters 2m #BREAKING: Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser says 280 passengers, 15 crew dead in Malaysian airliner crash: Interfax Very strange story. Like the two top stories of the year decided to marry. Nobody needs innocents involved like this. Going to be a political disaster one way or the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 What the heck. Total disaster and extremely scary situation. I don't know that I can remember a time in my lifetime, other then some of the conspiracy theories regarding some various plane crashes, that a large passenger plan was shot down by a military (non terrorist attack). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Oh boy. I'm gonna wait until facts are confirmed, but if it was shot down by Ukrainian rebels, s*** is about to hit the fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Just to clarify, this is the original Malaysian plane and not a second one, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chw42 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 10:40 AM) Reuters Top News @Reuters 1m #BREAKING: Malaysian plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile: Interior Ministry adviser, quoted by Interfax Reuters Top News @Reuters 2m #BREAKING: Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser says 280 passengers, 15 crew dead in Malaysian airliner crash: Interfax Very strange story. Like the two top stories of the year decided to marry. Nobody needs innocents involved like this. Going to be a political disaster one way or the other. Sad and strange indeed. Looks like CNN's got a new Malaysian Airline story to cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chw42 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 10:47 AM) Just to clarify, this is the original Malaysian plane and not a second one, right? No, this is a second one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 10:47 AM) Just to clarify, this is the original Malaysian plane and not a second one, right? No, this is a second one shot down today traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 No, this is a second one. Holy f***! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 10:47 AM) Just to clarify, this is the original Malaysian plane and not a second one, right? New incident, unconnected to the original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 New incident, unconnected to the original until the tin foil hat group comes up with a connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Craziness. I wonder if this was sanctioned by Putin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Assuming the plane was at cruising altitude, this wasn't just some foot soldier with a small piece of weaponry. This had to be a serious type of military missile owned by the government. My bet is that was just a major, major f***-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 08:58 AM) Assuming the plane was at cruising altitude, this wasn't just some foot soldier with a small piece of weaponry. This had to be a serious type of military missile owned by the government. My bet is that was just a major, major f***-up. That is my presumption as well. I presume this was a military strike, likely accidental, but still completely inexcusable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord chas Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Not going to be flying Malaysian Airlines any time soon... This is crazy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Reporter on Sky news saying that commercial flights have been re-routing around the contested area of Ukraine for several months now and this plane was not on the path it was supposed to be on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxbadger Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 If this is true, its really bad news for the rebels. Killing civilians of another country is the easiest way to get the hammer brought down on you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 The Associated Press @AP 8s MORE: Ukraine's president says his country's armed forces did not shoot at any airborne targets: http://apne.ws/1l8Bk0k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 (edited) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAL_007 The Russians killed 269 on a Korean Airlines flight in 1983 by shooting it down (on that occasion, an air to air missile as the plane was misidentified as being American and breaching their airspace). They also shot down a KAL flight in 1978, but there were 107 survivors. Edited July 17, 2014 by caulfield12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Latest "reports" are that Russian separatists were bragging about shooting down a Ukrainian military cargo plane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxbadger Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Russia also allegedly shot down an Ukrainian military plane in Ukraine air space. So Im wondering if after the newest sanctions Putin told the rebels to increase their attacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Latest "reports" are that Russian separatists were bragging about shooting down a Ukrainian military cargo plane. Sky news reporting that it had gone as far as the Russian news agency posting a story about it on YouTube which was taken down as soon as they figured out it was a commercial plane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 11:30 AM) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAL_007 The Russians killed 269 on a Korean Airlines flight in 1983 by shooting it down (on that occasion, an air to air missile as the plane was misidentified as being American and breaching their airspace). They also shot down a KAL flight in 1978, but there were 107 survivors. Also the US accidentally shot down an Iranian Airlines plane in the Gulf, I want to say in the 80's maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swingandalongonetoleft Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Absolutely incredible that anyone/anything other than birds still uses that airspace. An Il-76 was shot down about a month ago, and an AN-26 was shot down the other day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pettie4sox Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 This is f***ing horrible news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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