Another Malaysia airlines crash?
- Thread starter brianhos
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Reuters has a tweet showing the plane was somewhat off course.
Whoa. If that's accurate, it puts a bit more emphasis on this than I was originally giving it. It wasn't THAT far off course and they lost contact before Kiev.
Reuters has a tweet showing the plane was somewhat off course.
Interesting. So beyond the speculation of who shot this down, Malaysian Airline is in need of a bit of an upgrade when it comes to it's communication equipment.
Between these plane issues and movies like Lone Survivor, I am shocked how little we have progressed in the world of radio communications.
Some of the pictures showing up on Twitter are disgustingly graphic...
https://twitter.com/search?q=#mh17&src=tren&mode=photos
https://twitter.com/search?q=#mh17&src=tren&mode=photos
Ohhh, so that wasn't a Ukrainian military jet but rather was a jet filled with innocent civilians of varying nationalities and the entire World is now ****** at us? That tweet was an accident, the intern that sent it has been dealt with.
My guess is, the rebels who had taken over that missile base at the end of June were looking to make a name for themselves and mis-fired at the Malaysian Airlines 777 instead of the supposed Ukrainian AN-26 transport (which is a very large aircraft as well).
Shooting down a civilian commercial plane is a great way to turn the world's sentiment against you.
I'd be much more nervous if they downed one of our military planes. As it is, there will be a lot of stern letters and speeches.
