BREAKING NEWS - Malaysian airliner crashes on Russian-Ukrainian border

[Jacob]

Fucking hell

These days I do look at the flight paths of international flights I take; mostly to avoid anything getting too close to North Korea, but it seems like there are other places worth adding to the list.

[derspiess]

http://www.businessinsider.com/malaysian-plane-crash-russia-border-2014-7

There are some pics.  None appear to be grisly, but the last one does show a few bodies.

I'm sure the separatists were all giddy to get to the scene to see what they shot down and then fairly quickly had their oh shit moment.

[Zanza]

Always sad to see people go out in a completely random act of violence. It is much harder to accept this than a technical problem leading to a crash.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

My take:

This was a rebel fuck-up.  They has some new SA-11s, but lacked air search radar or anything else useful for target identification.  Boris spotted de plane, thought it looked like a Uke transport, and Ivan squirted off a missile in its general direction with the seeker active on launch.  They joyfully brag on VKonakte while bounding over to the crash site, only to drop their vodka and hurredly delete the post when they realize they actually bagged a 777.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Wow.

[Malicious Intent]

Seperatists are apparently very busy deleting earlier social media posts in which they were announcing a) to have long range AA Missiles and b) downing a large plane minutes before the crash became public. 

[Malthus]

Seperatists are apparently very busy deleting earlier social media posts in which they were announcing a) to have long range AA Missiles and b) downing a large plane minutes before the crash became public. 

That ought to work ... 

[Tonitrus]

A quick scan of the "mainstream" Russian media appears to be setting up the Ukrainian military.  Surprise surprise.

[citizen k]

Seperatists are apparently very busy deleting earlier social media posts in which they were announcing a) to have long range AA Missiles and b) downing a large plane minutes before the crash became public. 

That ought to work ... 

Maybe the IRS can help them.

[KRonn]

The entire Ukrainian adventure is an issue of Russian pride and Putin egoism;  these regular Russian army volunteers rebels have been getting first echelon stuff since the beginning, let alone what they've managed to score from the Ukrainians.

Yeah really, it's almost comical. Russia knows that we know, and we know they know we know who is actually orchestrating this whole "revolt".   

[Tonitrus]

One of the early Russian news stories on the event mentions the separatist militias saying that a Ukrainian fighter shot it down, then they shot down the fighter and claimed to have captured the Ukrainian pilot. 

http://www.1tv.ru/news/world/263331

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Cossack fuckers triggered the stop loss on my American stock, too.

[KRonn]

One of the early Russian news stories on the event mentions the separatist militias saying that a Ukrainian fighter shot it down, then they shot down the fighter and claimed to have captured the Ukrainian pilot. 

http://www.1tv.ru/news/world/263331

That stuff will only work in Russia and among those who want to believe. The rest of them will know better and just snicker but say nothing esle risk having Putin's IRS come down on them.   

[Legbiter]

Malaysian Airlines seem to have some difficulty keeping their planes airborne these days. 

And fuck those astroturf rebels, hope the Ukrainians kill them all.

[OttoVonBismarck]

RT is claiming that Putin's presidential plane may have been the target  .

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