RT
coverage is quite careful, although CNN is already indirectly
pointing the finger of blame by quoting Kiev junta sources
“Anton
Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, said in a
Facebook post that "terrorists" fired on the plane
operating a Buk surface-to-air missile system.
“Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko described the crash as a "terrorist
action."
"We
do not exclude that the plane was shot down and confirm that the
Ukraine Armed Forces did not fire at any targets in the sky,"
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said, according to his website.
My
first reaction is to ask who exactly is operating a Buk
surface-to-air missile system in the area – I don't think it is the
Donetsk People's Republic!
If
we are indulging in speculation as to who might be to blame for this it might
be more apropos to point out that Putin's plane was flying over the
area shortly before the Malaysian airlines flight was shot down.
I
concur with Mark Sleboda.
...and right on time here comes the False Flag, Reports Malaysian passenger plane w/ almost 300 people on board goes down on Russian/Ukrainian border. Kiev already claiming Russia/NAF responsible.
Groups
that are fighting Kiev’s forces in eastern Ukraine have rejected
any involvement in the incident, as there are reports that the plane
was shot down.
RT,
17
July, 2014
A
Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing-777 with over 280 passengers on board has
crashed in Ukraine, close to the border with Russia. Both Kiev and
the opposition deny involvement in the incident.
The
head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Geraschenko
said the plane carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members fell.
Malaysia
Airlines has confirmed that it has lost contact with the plane when
it was flying over Ukrainian soil.
The
passenger plane was expected to enter Russian airspace at 5:20pm
local time, but never did, a Russian aviation industry source was
cited by Reuters.
“The
plane crashed 60km away from the border, the plane had an emergency
beacon,” ITAR-TASS cited its source.
Residents
have reported finding debris from a plane, which they say could
belong to the Malaysian Boeing. They said that several dozen dead
passengers have been found, RIA Novosti reports.
Groups
that are fighting Kiev’s forces in eastern Ukraine have rejected
any involvement in the incident, as there are reports that the plane
was shot down.
The
Donetsk People’s Republic claims its self-defense forces simply
don’t have such military equipment.
Donetsk
People's Republic PM Aleksandr Boroday has called the incident
a “provocation by the
Ukrainian military”.
“We
confirm that the plane crashed not far from Donetsk,” Boroday
said. “Representatives
of Donetsk People's Republic have headed to the scene of the plane
search.”
“Self-defense
forces have no air-defense, which could target transport aircraft at
that height,” he
told Interfax.
“We
have only MANPADs (portable anti-aircraft missile complex) which hit
targets at 3-4 kilometers,”Sergey
Kavtaradze, representative for Donetsk People’s Republic PM, also
told journalists.
Russia’s
military also says none of its military planes have been flying close
to the Russia-Ukraine border on Thursday, RIA Novosti reported citing
a military official.
Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko has not ruled out that a Malaysian plane
has been shot down.
“We
don’t rule out that this plane was shot down and stress that
Ukrainian forces did not fulfill any actions targeting in the
air,” Poroshenko
said. He added that an investigation commission will be launched.
At
the same time, Anton Geraschenko said on his Facebook page that the
plane was targeted from the air defense missile complex "Buk".
RIA
Novosti is citing its source who said that Kiev indeed deployed “Buk”
in the Donetsk region.
“According
to the system of objective control, "Buk" division of the
armed forces of Ukraine was relocated to Donetsk region on Wednesday.
Now in Kharkov another division is being prepared,” the
source said.
The
sources stressed that aircraft flying at an altitude of over 10
kilometers can only be targeted by C-300 class weapons or ‘Buk”.
A
source in Russia's federal air traffic agency Rosaviatsia has said
that three days ago Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council
closed the airspace over eastern Ukraine because of the
so-called “anti-terrorist
operation” that
Kiev conducts in the region.
Earlier
a representative of Donetsk People’s Republic said that civil
aviation planes could not fly over Donetsk and Lugansk regions. He
added that all necessary traffic control and navigation equipment was
damaged.
“Dispatching
support of all passenger flights is being conducted from Kiev. How
this plane could be there - is not clear,” a
representative of Donetsk People’s Republic said.
Patrick Lancaster, who was at the crash site of the Malaysian jet, said the self-defense forces on the ground have confirmed the plane was “definitely shot down.” “Soldiers told us that there are bodies scattered all around the area… They’re waiting on the prime minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic to come and inspect the area,” he told RT.
The
Boeing-777, whose maiden commercial flight was almost exactly two
decades ago, had previously suffered ten serious incidents, according
to the Aviation Safety Database.
The
most notorious of these involved another route performed by the same
company, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, during which the US-made
aircraft disappeared off the radars between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing,
in March this year. Despite an international search effort costing
tens of millions of dollars, the plane, the reasons for whose
disappearance have still not been definitively established, has not
yet been recovered.
Another
widely-covered incident occurred last year, when Asiana Airlines
Flight 214 pilot crashed into the seawall just short of the landing
strip at San Fransisco International Airport, prompting the fuselage
to drag across the runway as it disintegrated in a fire. Three people
died as a result of the incident – the first fatalities in the
history of the model, which is regarded as very safe in the industry.
Currently,
about 1200 modifications of Boeing-777 are operated worldwide.
“A
Boeing-777 is an extremely reliable piece of machinery. Modern planes
don’t just crash with no reason,” pilot and aviation expert Yury
Karash told RT. “Let us recall how a Ukrainian missile downed a
Russian TU-154 aircraft ten years ago. I can’t completely exclude
the possibility the Boeing-777 was also hit by a missile.”I
don’t know who could’ve shot it down. But I can allege that it
most likely was the Ukrainian armed forces: simply because its
military – anti-aircraft defense, in particular – are,
unfortunately, unqualified. As judging by the overall state of the
Ukrainian armed forces, insufficient attention has been paid to their
training,” he
added
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