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"Several years earlier, Russian-backed terrorists used a Russian-supplied missile to blow up a civilian airplane, MH17." By all accounts this appears to have b
by ClumsyPilot 5y ago
"Several years earlier, Russian-backed terrorists used a Russian-supplied missile to blow up a civilian airplane, MH17."
By all accounts this appears to have been an accident, in the sence that they never meant to shoot a civilian aircraft. These types of mistakes have been made before, with US shooting down a Iranian passenger plane (Iran Air Flight 655), and Iran accidentally shooting down their own (!) airplane.
It appears in each case it was a Ground-to-Air missile and the crewes were panicking thinking they were under attack.
- Nexxxeh 5y agoI'm not trying to suggest they'd knowingly set out to shoot down a civilian airplane. It was an error. But Russia knowingly supplied terrorists with the weapons system. The terrorists knew they were attacking a plane, they just thought it was a different (and hostile) plane. And through panicked incompetence those terrorists obliterated a Malaysia Airlines 777 with nearly three hundred people on it. Then Russia took the weapons system back and lied about it.