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[Maninthemirror]

are we sure it was shot down? That is going to be labelled as an actof war

 

[LyleLanley]

BREAKING: Adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister says passenger plane carrying 295 shot down.

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[evanmisha]

From https://twitter.com/Reuters

Oh, man... What a tragedy.

 

[maniac-kun]

Breaking News: Malaysia plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile: Interfax

http://www.reuters.com/

 

[Frankenstrat]

Reuters also saying it was brought down by a Surface to Air Missile. Fuck.

 

[DC R1D3R]

crazy times…so sad.

 

[Kinan]

Strelkov is bragging about it, thinking they shot down Ukrainian AN-26:

This is what happens if you send Buk rocket systems to terrorists.... Happy now, Russia?

 

[soundahfekz]

Breaking News: Malaysia plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile: Interfax

http://www.reuters.com/

Damn.

What the fuck

 

[BronsonLee]

are we sure it was shot down? That is going to be labelled as an actof war

The reports coming out now seem to suggest so. This is bad.

 

[Pastry]

Breaking News: Malaysia plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile: Interfax

http://www.reuters.com/

What the fuck. Is there any way to prove whether the missile came from Russia or the Ukraine? Or will everyone just be blaming each other?

 

[SniperHunter]

does Malaysia even have a military? I doubt they will respond

 

[CreeperBlocks]

Breaking News: Malaysia plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile: Interfax

http://www.reuters.com/

Oh Shit, This isn't good.

 

[BronsonLee]

does Malaysia even have a military? I doubt they will respond

They are not the ones to worry about.

 

[Maninthemirror]

Did the Ukrainians say who shot it down?

 

[Kinyou]

Interfax is saying it was brought down by a BUK Ground to air Missle

Would that suggest it was fired by the rebels?

 

[LiK]

"@AP: BREAKING: Adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister says passenger plane carrying 295 shot down."

 

[docbon]

Holy shit.

 

[maniac-kun]

Breaking News: Malaysia plane was brought down by a Buk ground-to-air missile: Interfax

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_missile_system

 

[Alucrid]

Strelkov is bragging about it, thinking they shot down Ukrainian AN-26:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BswY6OtCQAEJPIa.png:large[IMG]

This is what happens if you send Buk rocket systems to terrorists.... Happy now, Russia?[/QUOTE]

Well, looking at this...

[quote="Nickodemos, post: 121434436"]Just so everybody's clear, operating advanced SAM systems such as the Buk is beyond the ability of the average insurgent cockmongler. If there are such systems employed on the separatist side, they're crewed by personnel from the Russian air-space defence brigades and get their orders from the Russian chain of command.[/QUOTE]

I would assume so.

 

[Volimar]

This is lighting up my twitter feed. Those poor souls. Minding your own business and getting shot down on a passenger plane.

 

[Exterminieren]

Oh fuck.

I don't know what happens now.

 

[DrM]

What the fuck. Is there any way to prove whether the missile came from Russia or the Ukraine? Or will everyone just be blaming each other?

It would be hard for anti air missile to originate from Russia, they have around 25 km of operating range (BUK). Other thing would be either trained separatists /Ukraine army trigger happy crew of mobile launcher unit.

 

[Linkhero1]

Wow...

Out of curiosity what happened the last time a passenger plane was shot down by military? Were there any repercussions?

 

[DSN2K]

This shit starts wars, scary times

 

[Nameless]

Insane

 

[Tugatrix]

does Malaysia even have a military? I doubt they will respond

they have, but they won't respond military Russia is too big and Ukraine too far, but they will ask for diplomatic support from international community and ask for payment of the losses and sorry.

 

[Scum]

Breaking News: Malaysia plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile: Interfax

http://www.reuters.com/

Fuck. :-(

 

[SniperHunter]

Wow...

Out of curiosity what happened the last time a passenger plane was shot down by military? Were there any repercussions?

The Russians shot down Korean Air 007 which accidentally invaded their airspace. There was no response
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

The Americans also shot down an Iran Air 655 and there was no response
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

 

[D4Danger]

what on earth? who is shooting down passenger jets? this is insane if true.

 

[Liquidsnake]

Fuck. :-(

Oh man.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Imagine going on holiday, and dying because your flight-operatives ignore airspace rules, and a gung-ho military take drastic action instead of negotiating

RIP

 

[Nicktendo86]

Fuck, rip to all those who have died (I am sure many if not all on that plane did ) and I am sure there will be consequences for this. Terrible.

 

[jl4855]

this is fn nuts

 

[Kinyou]

Strelkov is bragging about it, thinking they shot down Ukrainian AN-26:

This is what happens if you send Buk rocket systems to terrorists.... Happy now, Russia?

Oh, that's fucked up. Russia will have a lot of explaining to do

 

[CoolOff]

Yeah, I sadly feel this will go "unpunished", as with the Korean and Iranian planes.

 

[Linkhero1]

The Russians shot down a Korean passenger jet that accidentally invaded their airspace. There was no response

The Americans also shot down an Iranian jet and there was no response

I'm going to assume the same in this case. I'm sure there will be some condemnation.

 

[MacNille]

Jesus fuck. This is how wars starts. Dumb triggerhappy motherfuckers.

 

[RastaMentality]

@BloombergNews: BREAKING: Ukrainian rebels shot down Malaysian Airlines plane, government minister says.

 

[Smellycat]

Wow, that is just scary.

RIP to the passengers. This is horrible

 

[Volimar]

Damn

Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser: Malaysian plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile & all 295 people on board are dead

 

[iceatcs]

Wow, shot down. Might be only one who did it. No extremists problem but rebel.

Or even worst, Russia or Ukraine.

 

[DrFunk]

...uh oh

 

[Jimmyfenix]

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[Tugatrix]

There is one thing we aren't considering how many of those passengers were westerners? What diplomatic nightmare, I recall that USA enter WWI exactly because of stuff like this

 

[Az]

Damn.

 

[Nikodemos]

Strelkov is bragging about it, thinking they shot down Ukrainian AN-26:

This is what happens if you send Buk rocket systems to terrorists.... Happy now, Russia?

That shit needs to be saved and archived. Strelkov is a GRU officer. He gets his marching orders straight from Uncle Vlad.

 

[Maninthemirror]

This is horrible for the people of malaysia and those onboard and the families. they can't catch a break

 

[DrM]

@BloombergNews: BREAKING: Ukrainian rebels shot down Malaysian Airlines plane, government minister says.

And Ukrainian rebels will say otherwise in several hours time

 

[Liha]

omg what a tragedy...

 

[Locke Lamora]

Well, damn. My guess is, the Donetsk separatists fucked it up and can't hope for any russian help now if Ukraine attacks their shithole of a city. But that's just a wild guess.