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Uh...holy shit. It's actually confirmed to have been shot down and not just speculation?

 

[Falk]

I would take any news coming from Ukrainian or Russian sources with a grain of salt unless internationally corroborated.

Too much political motivation going on in that region to get a fair, unbiased report.

 

[Lucifon]

Even more so for Boeing. The 777 was considered the safest passenger jet prior to 2013. Then we had the crash landing in SF, MH370 and now this.

No passenger plane can survive being shot down by a missile...

 

[goldsoundz]

Well, I certainly didn't expect this turn of events when entering the thread. RIP to all who died. What an awful way to go.

 

[TheContact]

Wow, they thought it was an AN-26 and shot it down.

This is what they had to say about it (the vid was originally uploaded as AN-26 shot down but changed to the Boeing with the addendum in the post)

As was declared in numerous times due to constant crimes committed by fascist Ukrainian aviation all territory of Donetsk and Luganks Peoples Repulbics are declared by local government as no-fly zone. Looks like this Boeing was see as military Ukrainan An-26 and thus was downed.

P.S. this video was updated as at the beginning was expected that this is a video of fascist Ukrainain An-26. Condolences to relatives of all passengers. But everyone should know, that violent crimes against humanity committed by Ukrainian government give full right to declare territory of Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics as no fly zone.

 

[Zaptruder]

Lets hope this isn't some Franz Ferdinand moment.

 

[teiresias]

I'm glad we just supported the responsible government by attending the Olympics. Fuck Russia!

 

[somesayyea]

this is so sad, those poor people and their families

 

[PhantomHound]

RIP... all those families man innocent people not even involved in that stupid conflict dying for nothing.

 

[outunderthestars]

I would take any news coming from Ukrainian or Russian sources with a grain of salt unless internationally corroborated.

Too much political motivation going on in that region to get a fair, unbiased report.

This. I know everyone is interested in learning more ASAP, but we need to wait until we get some independent verification.

 

[CrankyJay]

Lets hope this isn't some Franz Ferdinand moment.

Sadly, was just thinking the same thing.

 

[Blablurn]

 

[GBG]

Fuck.

 

[kabel]

This region is controlled by the government.

The missile can be launched from somewhere else.

 

[djplaeskool]

This is how real shit gets started.
I'm hoping this gets sorted out with a quickness.

 

[Brazil]

Oh COME THE FUCK ON

Fucking war criminals.

 

[Knoxcore]

JESUS!!

I would hold off on jumping to conclusions.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

D:

 

[MRORANGE]

Wow this is crazy :|

 

[impetuous_silly]

My condolences to the families who lost loved ones. On a separate note; This is fuckin' weird.

 

[SniperHunter]

Potentially a similar situation to that Korean Airlines flight
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

not really similar. flight 007 was shot down by a Russian fighter jet. The pilots aboard didn't see the jet and failed to respond to instructions. they had accidentally flown into Russian airspace and since it was dark the fighter pilot failed to recognize the passenger jet insignia

 

[dc89]

Oh shit

 

[Ruruja]

Devastated for the passengers and families. What a fucked up way to go.

 

[Kinyou]

Russia won't explain shit. It's about time everyone just shut them out completely and just banned all trading with them. That government has no place in the modern world.

That's really would should be done but will probably never happen because of all the Gas the EU buys from Russia.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I don't mean this in a snarky way whatsoever, but I'm going to wait a few days for the facts to fall into place. Will probably take even longer than that.

 

[WARP10CK]

Even more so for Boeing. The 777 was considered the safest passenger jet prior to 2013. Then we had the crash landing in SF, MH370 and now this.

And the Heathrow crash which also was a 777 from British Airways everybody survived though.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Knowing a good amount of pilots, I highly doubt the crew ignored any airspace rules. This is likely on Russia. Shits about to get real

You're right, my bad for assuming they had the airspace on lockdown. Judging from that picture of where it went missing, seems there are few restrictions for commercial aircraft.

Is there an airspace restriction for how high they are flying? There must be a reason for this plane to have been shot down and not any others

 

[DrM]

That image from Flightradar is interesting, looks like they lost contact with plane quite a distance from a crash site. So something had to happened between last point of contact and crash site.

 

[MIMIC]

This is both scary and incredibly sad.

 

[benjipwns]

No passenger plane can survive being shot down by a missile...

Take evasive actions when it's picked up on sensors?

 

[butzopower]

Totally fucked.

 

[A Serious Man]

I just woke up, groggily checked twitter on my phone and shot out of bed.

If this is an accident, it happened in the worst possible place it could have.

 

[BobLoblaw]

Jesus Christ! This is so surreal. Another Malaysian airplane down, this time fucking shot out of the air? If this was because of Russia, then the shit just hit the fan.

 

[Blablurn]

I cant believe it.

 

[MMBosstones86]

This is really fucked up

 

[antennaehead]

This is all kinds of fucked up.
Terrible.

 

[AkuMifune]

This actually happened? Terrible, horrible.

And we still have no idea what happened to the other Malaysian flight. NONE. So fucked up.

 

[Tugatrix]

Take evasive actions when it's picked up on sensors?

not with a 777, too big to dodge a missile

 

[Knoxcore]

I would take any news coming from Ukrainian or Russian sources with a grain of salt unless internationally corroborated.

Too much political motivation going on in that region to get a fair, unbiased report.

Agreed. We need to take a step back and wait for more information.

 

[fatalexe]

Damn... my country and our citizen's are in for another round of shock. Why does something so tragic of this scale happens 2 time in a year. This is what happens when you arm rebels and extremists that have no intention of spreading peace and instead achieving their objectives through mindless force and violence and are trigger happy...

 

[toxicgonzo]

Can a passenger plane even detect incoming missiles? Like would they have even had a shot at some sort of evasive maneuvers? I know 777s don't exactly turn on a dime...

I don't know, but I remember at one time there was discussion of adding counter-measures to commercial aircraft for added protection, but the probability of such a scenario was too low compared to the costs so it was not implemented.

It could have saved a few lives today

 

[MacNille]

This is an AN-26

That doesn't look like a fucking civilian airline.

 

[icespide]

what the fuck

 

[Lucifon]

Take evasive actions when it's picked up on sensors?

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's not easy for a huge passenger plane to avoid a modern targeted missile. Especially from pilots who have no military experience, and probably don't have the equipment on board to detect missiles. But again, I could be wrong.

 

[Zalman]

I was just on a plane yesterday. Horrifying thought.

 

[Uzzy]

That's really would should be done but will probably never happen because of all the Gas the EU buys from Russia.

I really hope that when this is all done and over with, the EU politicians put together a plan to minimise the exposure we have to Russia, and to sort it out so that the EU can actually defend itself.

 

[SniperHunter]

Take evasive actions when it's picked up on sensors?

only airforce one and Israeli airlines have that technology

btw this could be a terrorist incident. there were warnings about isis and al queda testing a new type of undetectable explosives

 

[keit4]

Wow, this is serious.

 

[Jibbed]

BBC is reporting it was shot down...

"Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying the plane had been hit by a missile at an altitude of 10,000m (33,000ft)."

 

[KillerMan91]

I'm glad we just supported the responsible government by attending the Olympics. Fuck Russia!

Eh. I really don't think this had the blessings of Putin. He is evil but not insane.