Breaking: Ukraine airliner 'crash'

[haxxiy]

mai said:

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.

Yes, it's very strange.  The separatists could fire a thousand of those missiles and they probably wouldn't hit a commercial flight.

The alternative is that someone staged a black flag operation. Which is more unlikely? We can only speculate at this point.