Boeing 777 Crashes Near Russian Ukrainian Border - 295 Dead

[Alvin York]

Primary suspects would be Russian supported separatists in Eastern Ukraine. Don't forget bout the Chechen terrorists. At this point very little is known

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/world/europe/malaysian-airlines-jet-ukraine.html?_r=0

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

A terrible thing. No mention yet of any Americans on board, not that our sorry excuse for a leader would do anything about it anyway if any or all of the 295 were American citizens.

 

[NavetG8r]

That airline is cursed. I'd never, ever fly with them.

 

[Turk182]

It was brought down by a Energy Weapon..... Damn Russians!


Sad loss of human life.

 

[williston_gator]

I've seen a few reports that say they are working to confirm there were 23 Americans aboard.

 

[Dugaboy]

Some good missile system that can fly up to 33,000 feet seek and destroy a civilian jetliner. I find it hard to believe that the missile was triggered by Russian-favorite guerrilla fighters carrying RPG's...

 

[DocZaius]

Some good missile system that can fly up to 33,000 feet seek and destroy a civilian jetliner. I find it hard to believe that the missile was triggered by Russian-favorite guerrilla fighters carrying RPG's...

The rumor is that it's not a shoulder-mounted missile, but rather this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_missile_system

 

[8802Gator]

Very sad. Malaysian Airlines has been taking it on the chin lately.

 

[Dugaboy]

I hope is discovered that the missile system was indeed, a Russian system....so much for their midget dictator president and their persona in the west...

 

[Alvin York]

I hope is discovered that the missile system was indeed, a Russian system....so much for their midget dictator president and their persona in the west...

Putin has quietly evolved into a totalitarian leader as powerful as the old Russian Czars and some insiders warn the little man wants to be another Stalin. Remember this dude's resume includes fun and games in the Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti,(KGB).

"Putin has already said that the USSR’s fall was a geopolitical catastrophe. He has already taken strides to create the Moscow-centric Eurasian Union, which comes into full in 2015. If Putin truly believes that the dissolution of the USSR itself was illegal, he is implying that all of Ukraine and the Baltics, as well as several other currently independent countries, belong to Russia and/or a reconstituted Soviet Union, and that he would be within his rights to invade and conquer them. Every independent nation that borders Russia and/or was once incorporated in the Soviet Union should greet this with great alarm."
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/03/12...r-was-illegal/


"Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."

"Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen."
_Vladimir Putin

If Comrade Putin's fingerprints are on this catastrophic plane crash it will mean a major geopolitical crisis for the West.

 

[URGatorBait]

If Comrade Putin's fingerprints are on this catastrophic plane crash it will mean a major geopolitical crisis for the West.

Of which we'll likely do very little under this current administration. Of course, our media, will simply cover it as nothing more than a horrible "accident". Wouldn't want to promote that there are indeed bad people in the world doing bad things!

 

[WillGetIn]

Anybody wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines stock?

 

[ppinesgator]

The separtists( or the Russians themselves) had brought down three Ukrainian planes in the last couple weeks. This looks like some bumblef*cks misidentifying the commercial plane as a Ukrainian Air Force plane. As result, nearly 300 people died.

Meanwhile, CNN has another downed airplane to talk about the next six months. This morning they are talking about the black boxes, which is stupid as can be, Most you are going to hear on the black box recording is a pilot saying, "oh, shi*t, what is that?"

 

[Alvin York]

This has got to be another example of muddled reporting.

"The 15-member Security Council unanimously called for a “full, thorough and independent international investigation” into the cause of the crash. Jeffrey D. Feltman, the United Nations undersecretary general for political affairs, told the council that 80 children were among the dead."'
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/world/europe/malaysia-airlines-plane-ukraine.html

 

[ppinesgator]

This has got to be another example of muddled reporting.

"The 15-member Security Council unanimously called for a “full, thorough and independent international investigation” into the cause of the crash. Jeffrey D. Feltman, the United Nations undersecretary general for political affairs, told the council that 80 children were among the dead."'
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/world/europe/malaysia-airlines-plane-ukraine.html

Why? 297 people minus 15 crew members equals 282 passengers. So 28.3% of the passengers were children. Not far fetched at all, especially considering the plane had a lot of Europeans on it heading out for family vacations. Sounds about right.

If the plane was outbound from Tennessee, everyone on it would have been first cousins. Now that would have been a statistical red flag.