Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk

Re:Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk by grey-area on Thursday July 17, 2014 @01:39PM (#8048962)

Interesting, the google cache of that post still works:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%3...

and the google translation is as follows:

Message from the militia. "In the area Torrez just downed plane An-26, lying somewhere in the mine" Progress ". Warned same - not to fly in "our sky." And here is the video the confirmation of the next "ptichkopada." Birdie fell for waste heap, the residential sector is not caught. Peaceful people do not suffer. And also have information about the second downed aircraft, like the Su. "

even though the original post has been deleted from VK

http://vk.com/wall-57424472_7256

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Re:Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk by TheAnimus on Thursday July 17, 2014 @01:52PM (#8049035)

This is very worrying, an AN-26 does not have the service ceiling of what I would expect the MH flight to be travelling at. A trip seven would be about 2500m higher.

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Re:Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk by vonmoltke on Thursday July 17, 2014 @01:59PM (#8049096)

Its also smaller. However, if they identified the target and aimed the missile visually, its possible that they mistook a 777@10000m for an An-26@7500m. I doubt the rebels have much in the way of air search radar. If this was a rebel misidentification, what probably happened is that they fired the missile line-of-sight with the seeker active.

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