The people who fired that Buk knew – or should have known (it was easily checkable) that there were airliners flying overhead. They could have checked where they were. The chance that an aircraft at that height was a Ukrainian ground attack aircraft (it seems unlikely that it would have been photo-recce if it was above cloud) seems to me to be approximately zero. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more airliners than Ukrainian air force aircraft flying over within range of their their missiles.
And your IDF pilot doesn’t know that there are hospitals or civilians around when they are bombing in a city? Chances are there are much more civilians than legit targets, provided their targets are legit in the first place. And you try to have us believe that they knew it was an airliner, when it had been rerouted outside its usual route, and made fly lower, and escorted by fighters nearby? PLEASE! Are you paid to say that crap?
As far as I can see, they were shooting at anything they detected, despite knowing (& if not knowing, being criminally negligent, since it was, as I keep saying, information easily accessible to them) that there were lots of airliners up there.
If, as you say, there are much more airliners flying than urkainian militaries, and if, as you imply, the rebels shoot indiscriminately, then they should have shot more airliners than ukrainian planes right? Yet they shot quite a few military planes & “only” one airliner.
You keep saying that they were just a rag-tag bunch of rebels who couldn’t help it. ********! They weren’t children.
They probably have much less experience than the jihadis that does your work in Syria, after Libya & al.
BTW, what battle were they in? Was anyone bombing them, or anyone within the area they covered? Everything I’ve read says not.
And in what battle are the pilots who bomb civilian targets? When was the last time the US or IDF AF had any adversary worth worrying about? When they bomb stuff they are about as much at risk than this sam battery. Probably less so.
Nic
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