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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother Malaysian airline crashes, this time in Ukraine!
In the wake of missing Malaysian 370, is this really a coincidence???
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)Shooting down passenger airplanes?
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)malaise
(268,998 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)Either scenario is terrifying.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Reuters Top News @Reuters 9s
#BREAKING: Malaysian plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile: Interior Ministry adviser, quoted by Interfax
The Associated Press @AP 1m
BREAKING: Adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister says passenger plane carrying 295 shot down.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)That sucks.
malaise
(268,998 posts)or do we no longer need that
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)Oh my God - this is horrible
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)mr blur
(7,753 posts)but your god doesn't have an impressive record of helping out. Or of doing anything at all. Ever.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Putin wanted a return to the Soviet Union. I guess that included shooting down Asian airliners.
malaise
(268,998 posts)There was Cubana 1976 - what year waas the Iranian aircraft full of passengers shot down and where is Ft 370 all now?
All sides are capable of this and it may have been nothing more than an accident.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister, said on his Facebook page the plane was flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters (33,000 feet) when it was hit by a missile fired from a Buk launcher. A similar launcher was seen by Associated Press journalists near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne earlier Thursday.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_UKRAINE_PLANE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-07-17-11-40-11
City Lights
(25,171 posts)brooklynite
(94,571 posts)One month after 9/11 an American Airlines jet crashed near JFK...coincidence?
Hell yes!
The only thing worse than a BAD conspiracy theory is a LAZY conspiracy theory.
a kennedy
(29,661 posts)who was just talking about another world war? This is bad.....
malaise
(268,998 posts)challenge the current financial orthodoxy.
What a planet.