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Handy work even if they wanted to. in late june, the same separatists were bragging to russian language media that actually they'd just taken over a ukrainian military air defense base which, wouldn't you know it, was armed with those powerful buk system anti-aircraft missiles, the kind that can absolutely hit a plane at 30,000 feet, 40,000 feet, 50,000 feet, used to shoot planes out of the sky. that's exactly what they're designed for. there are reports that the official twitter feed of the donetsk people's republic, self-proclaimed separatist government of that region, there are reports toda...

That but many reports out of the area saying it was shot down. to the point about what kind of hardware would shoot this plane down, if possible, absolutely right. your previous guest was saying a shoulder fired missile couldn't do it. that's right. this plane, according to flight tracker.com was at 33,000 feet on the transit route from amsterdam to kuala lumpur. to hit a plane at 33,000 feet, you need one of those massive missiles that you see on the back of a trailer that may have been pulled through red square. and, in fact, early reports from the ukrainians suggested that a buk missile, b-...