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295 dead aboard Malaysian Airlines shot down over Ukraine.


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#BREAKING: Malaysian plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile: Interior Ministry adviser, quoted by Interfax

 

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#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.

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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).

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QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 17, 2014 -> 10:40 AM)
Reuters Top News @Reuters

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#BREAKING: Malaysian plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile: Interior Ministry adviser, quoted by Interfax

 

Reuters Top News @Reuters

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#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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

 

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