What I didn’t like reading regarding the passenger’s horrible fate:

– Nothing was done to explain why this flight was being targeted despite the 150 different crossing of this zone the same day on the same route. Despite the slight flight deviation, the second radar echo, the second flight nearby*, the NATO AWAC data**, nothing is done to explain if there are any links. And the rebel didn’t seem to have randomly targeted a plane.

– The long explanation for the lack of consciousness of the passengers. The frigid outside temperature is recursively put forward when static temperature (-50C) and arrested temperature (-15C)are two different things. The report even detailing minutiously how the fuselage broke apart with the cockpit section cut out and falling apart, the first class section torned out with the top fuselage bending upward and the floor (with passengers) falling away downward; the center section was then exposed to the rushing airstream with passengers obviously having their seat belt untightened (cruise leg and flight deviation to avoid weather generated turbulences); the rear fuselage then broke out in a peeling fashion with the aft section separating in once before breaking apart. How could the passenger have freezed to death in such a scenario? Those in the first class mostly might have been ejected and, perhaps, submitted to the extreme cold before entering warmer layer of air, those in the rear cabin might have been flushed by the violent airstream on the rear bulkhead.

Frankly I do not understand why they didn’t disclose more of their results, even in an edited fashion. This is a technical report. Facts are what bears some importance. And sadly, the despicable idea that passengers dies peacefully in a sudden flash of heat and lights stands firm. Again.

To conclude, I would like to insist that the report constitutes an impressive sum of work written in pedagogical terms, accessible to many with a noble intention to tackle all the interrogation of this tragedy, from the small details to the organic cause leading to the disaster (no piping down of Intel***). A the ages of blatant propaganda from Russia and the sinister French Prosecutors devoid of any sensibility**** this stands out of the ordinary.

An oustanding read.

*there are no transcript[of interview of the pilots of the nearby flight
** Reported as non-disclosed and bearing no informational content – if someone had tailed MH17, this would be apparent on the radar and converge with the MH17 deviation triggering some interest by the air defense.
***But as bloggers on an aviation forun that were discussing those shotdown after the 14th july, we can’t stand otherwise that being outraged by this.
****to say the least