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originally posted by: paraphi
a reply to: Azureblue
Can you point to a source around the Australian Foreign minister's failure to get the tapes released, even if they have no actual bearing on the demonstrated culpability of Russia in the shooting down of MH17.
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: Azureblue
The control tower tapes have been released. There was even transcripts of them published by the media. Even if that wasn't the case, investigators have the black box from the flight. That's going to give them all the same data as the control tower tapes plus more.
So why would it matter if the control tower tapes hadn't been released?
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: Azureblue
MH17: Transcript of flight's last moments reveals frantic efforts to contact disappeared plane
Notice how the article specifically mentions control tower data being used.
originally posted by: Salander
It is interesting to note something I had not been aware of, that the Dutch noted that the craft likely suffered structural damage (not to mention death of the cockpit crew) from multiple objects entering from the outside, just as the pictures showed, cannon fire.
The in-flight disintegration of the aeroplane near the Ukrainian/Russian border was the result of the detonation of a warhead. The detonation occurred above the left hand side of the cockpit. The weapon used was a 9N314M-model carried on the 9M38-series of missiles, as installed on the Buk suface-to-air missile system.
Other scenarios that could have led to the disintegration of the aeroplane were considered, analysed and excluded based on the evidence available.
originally posted by: Salander
I saw the evidence of the cannon fire, and I saw the evidence of an engine burning.
No other aircraft could have shot down the plane either, the JIT concluded.
The theory that one of the BUK missile launchers controlled by the Ukrainian military and shown by the Russian satellite imagery shot down MH17 has now received strong public endorsement as a result of a presentation made today (2nd June 2015) by the BUK missile system’s manufacturer Almaz-Antey.
The Almaz-Antey presentation confirms MH17 was shot down by a BUK missile, burying once and for all the SU 25 theory, about which regular readers of Russia Insider will know I have always been skeptical.