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  • AVION1
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    Originally posted by kris View Post
    Come on... just compare sizes, or size of the airliner and size of the underlying terrain features. The photo would have to be taken from a distance of 500 feet or so for the plane to appear that big (it would look differently, though).
    That bright line left of and below the airliner is the Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport runway 8/26 = 13123 ft according to Wikipedia.
    It doesn't make sense.
    Looks like a weather satellite picture, and a Google Earth picture "photoshopped" together.

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  • kris
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    Originally posted by AVION1 View Post
    Russian TV is claiming they have a satellite picture, showing an ukranian airplane intercepting and destroying MH17. Is anyone else following this news today?:
    Come on... just compare sizes, or size of the airliner and size of the underlying terrain features. The photo would have to be taken from a distance of 500 feet or so for the plane to appear that big (it would look differently, though).
    That bright line left of and below the airliner is the Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport runway 8/26 = 13123 ft according to Wikipedia.
    It doesn't make sense.

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  • ErwinS
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    Fighter is clearly a Su-27. And a AA missile shot on such short range? Yeah right:$

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  • Evan
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    Originally posted by AVION1 View Post
    Russian TV is claiming they have a satellite picture, showing an ukranian airplane intercepting and destroying MH17. Is anyone else following this news today?:
    That's a 767.

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  • Highkeas
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    Originally posted by AVION1 View Post
    Russian TV is claiming they have a satellite picture, showing an ukranian airplane intercepting and destroying MH17. Is anyone else following this news today?:
    Interesting picture review here:
    Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down by a Ukraine fighter jet , Russia claims — and now the Russians say they have proof.

    and here which describe the aircraft as a 767

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  • AVION1
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    Russian TV is claiming they have a satellite picture, showing an ukranian airplane intercepting and destroying MH17. Is anyone else following this news today?:

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  • Evan
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    Strange dialog. If the question is, "Did the passengers experience a last moment of terror?", the answer is almost definitely yes. If the question is. "How prolonged was that moment", I fail to see the reason for this question, other than a misery-porn fetish among the public.

    The plane didn't 'pop' out of existence. It was torn apart by aerodynamic forces, and the passengers lost consciousness probably in less than a half a minute. And although that would be a terrible half a minute, it would be enough to don a mask at least.

    There is also the possibility that the passenger was already wearing the mask due to some unexpected medical issue before the flight was struck.

    But what difference does any of this make? This is as evil and horrible as it gets. There's no point in making it more horrible.

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  • sjwk
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    And a BBC article (in English) reporting on the speech by the Dutch minister:
    The Dutch foreign minister says a victim of the east Ukraine air disaster was found wearing an oxygen mask, suggesting not everyone died instantly.

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  • Robem
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    One MH17 passenger was found with oxygen mask, Frans Timmermans, Foreign Affairs Minister of The Netherlands told in Dutch TV talkshow "Pauw" yesterday night.

    http://pauw.vara.nl/nieuws/slachtoff...asker-gevonden

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  • EconomyClass
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    Wasn't the deposed president the real fascist?

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  • pdeboer
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    Publication preliminary report MH17

    The Dutch Safety Board will issue the preliminary report on the investigation into the crash of MH17 on Tuesday 9 September 2014. The preliminary report will be available at www.safetyboard.nl at 10:00 AM local time Amsterdam (08:00 hours UTC).
    The Dutch Safety Board is investigating the accident to flight MH17 which occurred at Thursday 17th of July 2014 in the region of Donetsk (Ukraine).

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  • Leftseat86
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    Originally posted by hongmng View Post
    I have been away for several weeks and not following this thread for awhile, so sorry if this has been posted, but if not:

    Look at the landing gear, doesn't that write "MRC"??! (MH17 was MRD)
    It is a D, there is just some glare that makes it look like a C. The conspiracy theorists jumped on that one.

    According to my dutch friends the person's facebook post was public and the photo in question was littered with comments from their friends & family expressing shock and horror that they were actually on the flight in question.

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  • Gabriel
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    I don't know if this one is real or not, but it wouldn't surprise me. I can see myself making a joke like that. It reminds me to the accident when one pilot said to the other "Say 'I love you' for the CVR in case we crash" (or something to that effect), and they did crash.

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  • hongmng
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    Originally posted by pdeboer View Post
    A awful tweet of one of the Dutch passengers:

    I have been away for several weeks and not following this thread for awhile, so sorry if this has been posted, but if not:

    Look at the landing gear, doesn't that write "MRC"??! (MH17 was MRD)

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  • brianw999
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    This link will take you to a list of all those lost. May they rest in peace in the certain knowledge that the world will not forget them.....

    Last edited by brianw999; 2014-08-24, 22:05.

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