Another Malaysia Plane Down

So it was known that they had access to ADA capabilities (even if only shoulder fired missiles). It is essential in any war to keep your capabilities a secret. If it was known they had shoulder fire missiles it should have automatically been assumed they had something bigger.

Ukraine Separatists Have Shot Down Multiple Aircraft Over The Past Month - Business Insider

"At least 10 other Ukrainian aircraft — all of them significantly lower-flying than a Boeing 777 — have been shot down since the rebels started using MANPADS according to a count kept by military aviation expert David Cenciotti, including five Mi-24 Hinds, two Mi-8 helicopters, one An-2, one An-30, and the Ukrainian transport plane."

Not a couple...but 10 aircraft had been shot down over the area in recent months. Ten! Whoever said it was a safe corridor is a complete imbecile. Apparently one of these planes was a jet fighter as well. It's sad that people lost their lives but those people never should have flown through that war zone to begin with. The guys that shot the plane down are not terrorists, they are soldiers, in uniforms and lines have been drawn. It's a traditional war, unlike the US has been fighting the past couple decades. It's a REAL war, Civilians have no place being there. Don't forget that the West is just as responsible for this war as the Russians are.

I do blame Malaysia Airlines and I do blame the ICAO and IATA. They are morons for thinking the airspace was safe. They are responsible for the deaths. You do NOT fly civilian aircraft over war zones! Russia, Europe and the US are to blame for the deaths. You should not be playing your political games and breaking up democratically elected governments. Everyone has their share of the blame in this one. Listening to the supposed conversation between the rebel commanders it was obviously not their intent to shoot down a civilian aircraft, it seems pretty apparent that this was not in their best interest.

 

There is no doubt that it is a Russian made rocket. There are basically two main suppliers of military weaponry in the world: Russia and the US. Almost every country in that part of the world (former USSR) uses Russian made weapons. The Ukraine has had a couple Mi-24 Hinds shot down....those are Russian made helicopters. Who the equipment was made by is irrelevant....and in all honesty, who shot them down is irrelevant.

 

That's pretty insensitive....but funny all the same.