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Re:Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk by dragonwriter on Thursday July 17, 2014 @12:20PM (#8048380)
> A defence expert has told the BBC that shooting down a plane at 10,000m (9.7 miles)

First off, 10,000m is 6.2 miles, not 9.7 miles.

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Re:Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk by philip1209 on Thursday July 17, 2014 @12:44PM (#8048569)
Perhaps the defence expert was misintrepreted -

If the plane is 6.2 miles on the ground away and flying at 30K feet (5.7 miles), then basic pythagorean geometry says that a missile has to travel sqrt(6.2^2+5.7^2) = 8.4 miles, which is closer to the number they give?

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Re:Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk by jahewson on Thursday July 17, 2014 @12:53PM (#8048637)
No, 10,000m is the altitude of the plane, i.e. 33,000ft or 6.2 miles.
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