RE: Malaysian airlines plane shot down over Ukraine
July 17, 2014 at 3:21 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2014 at 3:25 pm by Anomalocaris.)
The claim that a missile brought down the plane was made by the Ukrainian government. They even identified the type of missile involved.
It seems possible the plane went down due to mechanical failure. But it is probably unusual for this to happen without a mayday from the aircraft. In any case, a missile warhead mostly kill by sending interconnected steel shrapnels to cut up the aluminum plane structure. Evidence of shrapnel damage on the aircraft would be easily distinguished from other times of in-air or crash damage, and would point unambigiously towards the plane having been blown up by a missile warhead.
It seems possible the plane went down due to mechanical failure. But it is probably unusual for this to happen without a mayday from the aircraft. In any case, a missile warhead mostly kill by sending interconnected steel shrapnels to cut up the aluminum plane structure. Evidence of shrapnel damage on the aircraft would be easily distinguished from other times of in-air or crash damage, and would point unambigiously towards the plane having been blown up by a missile warhead.
