Malaysia Flight 17 (777) shot down!
07-17-2014, 02:41 PM
#102
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Originally Posted by satpak77
The a-holes need to be held accountable and brought to justice. This is sickening. A civilian PAX plane ? likely talking to ATC and on a code ? etc ?
But I agree, someone needs to capture and bring to justice all those involved in this shooting.
07-17-2014, 02:44 PM
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Well what I found was if you were watching the live stream it wasn't filtered but if you were watching with like a 10 second "behind live" point, it was filtered. Programming error i guess?
07-17-2014, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by ShyGuy
We aren't ones to talk. Re: Iran Air 655
But I agree, someone needs to capture and bring to justice all those involved in this shooting.
But I agree, someone needs to capture and bring to justice all those involved in this shooting.
The President has no more inclination to do anything about it than you or I have the power to do anything about it.
07-17-2014, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by ShyGuy
Don't go on liveleak. There are some things that can'be unseen. Photos from a distance are one thing but this is video up close.
07-17-2014, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Sum Ting Wong
I'm sure Obama will handle this development with his usual firmness.
07-17-2014, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by GogglesPisano
So if you were POTUS, what exactly would you do, seeing how -- as far as anyone knows -- no US citizens were on board, it wasn't a US air carrier, it wasn't flying to or from the US and wasn't over US airspace?
07-17-2014, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by CBreezy
Accidently shooting down a civilian airliner is, in fact, not an act of war against the United States. No one cried fowl when they shot down the Ukranian military aircraft in the last few weeks. That's an act of war. I'm not saying it isn't bad news for Russia (if it was them) but it surely isn't them declaring war on anyone specifically other than Ukraine.
You're right, I don't have operational knowledge of how SAMs work. That doesn't mean that my opinion is wrong. A former military pilot on this thread admited that whether an explosion or fire is created on the targeted aircraft may or may not happen.
Now that that's been said, the US Government has just released that it has confirmed that the airplane was shot down by a surface to air missile.
You're right, I don't have operational knowledge of how SAMs work. That doesn't mean that my opinion is wrong. A former military pilot on this thread admited that whether an explosion or fire is created on the targeted aircraft may or may not happen.
Now that that's been said, the US Government has just released that it has confirmed that the airplane was shot down by a surface to air missile.
Let me say this too... Trying to sell sarcasm on a message board doesn't work that well since I have no way of knowing your intended tone. Reading it in a sarcastic light, I apologize for a few of the responses, but I will say that in flight breakup and MX glaring enough to cause this are all the least likely results, most crashes these days are a direct result of human intervention, I'm actually having a hard time of thinking of one which is not.
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