haxxiy said:
It's far from the first airline shooting incident. The US itself did the same on 1988. My first guess is that the Ukrainian separatists thought another Ukrainian army jet was flying over Donetsk and fired one of those Buk missiles and it actually managed to hit the target without extra guidance on sheer bad luck... |
As I've said it's technically impossible without radar tracking, even if said Buk was operational, and even if operator is stupid enough to confuse Boing with smth closely resembling military jet like Il-76.
BTW Iranian jet in 1988 was shot on purpose, it just was mis-identified. The last known incident of a truly accident shot of passenger flight from the ground was Tu-154 Tel-Aviv-Novosibirsk flight over the Black Sea by... Ukarinian forces in 2001, shot by S-200. It was the result of multiple f*cku-ps in a row like missile being activated for whatever reason (it was training launch, it shouldn't been activated) and Tu-154 being exteremly "lucky" to be there in a specific time and place when missile got him on the distance far outreaching its official hit distance.
