Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

[gettothechopper]

someone just shot down a malaysian airliner in ukrainian airspace (mh370?!?)

either russia again, (thinking its ukrainian) or ukraine retaliating for this mornings SU25 or someone else?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28354856

 

[XeNoN89]

someone just shot down a malaysian airliner in ukrainian airspace

Uh oh

http://news.sky.com/story/1302864/malaysian-plane-crashes-with-295-on-board

295 people on board


If this is correct somebody messed up real bad

 

[Third Opinion]

Interfax agency are saying it was shot down.

 

[Zbornak]

Oh dear, who ever shot that down will be paying for that.

 

[Strife212]

Why fly a passenger jet through a warzone anyway?

 

[matt_fsr]

Malaysian Airlines - not having a lot of luck lately are they?

Sad for the 295 people and their families, puzzling why commercial airlines are still flying over active war zones.... oh wait, no it isn't. It'll save them £50 worth of fuel...

 

[dunker]

someones SAM set to auto?
very sad for the passengers and family

 

[Zbornak]

Also tragic for those who work at Malaysian Airlines. Over 500 passengers have lost their lives on this airline this year. Can they even survive as a business now?

 

[DailyGeek]

My stomach just churned on reading that on my BBC news alert. What a horrible way to go

 

[Devrij]

Why a passenger plane bound for Malaysia? I can't see what motivation there is to shoot it down unless it's to blame the other side?

 

[Craterloads]

Horrible, RIP all those on-board.

If it was Russia behind this I wonder what will happen internationally.

 

[scorza]

Terrible news

Imagine if ISIS get access to the sort of SAM that can knock out a commercial airliner at cruising altitude.

 

[arknor]

Why a passenger plane bound for Malaysia? I can't see what motivation there is to shoot it down unless it's to blame the other side?

someone will have thought it was another military transport plane they fly only a bit lower than passenger jets and one was already shot down before

 

[molinari]

Horrible, RIP all those on-board.

If it was Russia behind this I wonder what will happen internationally.

I guess it will be similar to when the US shot down the passenger plane in the middle east in the 80's.

Very sad news .

 

[Yaayuh!]

It was at 33,000ft in the international flight path which many others use. Someone ****** up.

 

[Werewolf]

someones SAM set to auto?
very sad for the passengers and family

Aye, and not likely to be a man portable missile given the heights involved at a guess.

So either a fixed/vehicle based launcher set to auto, or someone not bothering to check the target.

Listening to the news there is a suggestion it was a BUK missile launcher that the rebels had, and were claiming to have shot down an aircraft earlier.

 

[scorza]

I guess it will be similar to when the US shot down the passenger plane in the middle east in the 80's.

Very sad news .

Or when the Russians shot down a Korean plane in the Pacific in the '80s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

Civilisation is going backwards

 

[Rroff]

Horrible, RIP all those on-board.

If it was Russia behind this I wonder what will happen internationally.

Technically it would be an act of war but I can't really see it escalating to that.

 

[silversurfer]

I guess it will be similar to when the US shot down the passenger plane in the middle east in the 80's.

Very sad news .

Russia have form on this, they shot down a passenger plane in the cold war that had strayed over the border and it resembled a US spy plane.

Theres not much excuse this time except no plane should be over the Ukraine imo

James Miller ‏@MillerMENA 14m
Flight was reportedly traveling at 10km, indicating a very advanced AA system would have been needed to shoot it down http://bit.ly/1t9ezi1

 

[Flying_Hellfish]

Absolutely awful, RIP