Malaysian MH17 - Alle peker på Putin som synderen

Bilde fra youtube. Sjekk den grusomme vidoen her: http://tinyurl.com/mdd34ns

Fra en hjemmeværende kollega har jeg fått dette:

Putin er skurken. Det er jeg enig i.

Ulykkesflyet var i området fordi dette er den mest sentrale luftled fra det sentrale Europa til Sørøst-Asia. Sikker høyde var erklært over 30.000 fot og MAS lå i 33.000 fot.  En rekke fly lå på rekke i området da nedskytingen skjedde.

Like foran lå en 787 fra Air India og bare 25 kilometer bak kom Singapore fra København i code share med SAS. De kan ha sett hva som skjedde.

 Andre fly som viste på Flight radar var flere fly fra Lufthansa, THY og ANA for å nevne noen. Dette viser at nedskytingen skjedde helt vilkårlig og i såkalt sikker høyde for sivil luftfart.  Dette tjener Putin, separatistene og russerne til liten ære.

Aviser her i London peker på Putin, og at terrorhandlingen må få politiske konsekvenser. Her et kort utdrag: Sjekk video http://tinyurl.com/p8cwl8w

Powerful images of the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 after it was apparently shot down over Ukraine are used to effect on front pages.

And most papers dedicate several pages to analysis of what happened to the Boeing 777 - and the consequences for the world.

Initial reports suggesting a missile fired by pro-Russian separatists downed the plane might have been denied by the rebels. But the Daily Mail carries the transcript of a YouTube video on which, it says, the men "cheered the destruction of what they thought was a military aircraft". TheGuardian details another audio recording during which two separatists appear to realise their error, with one commenting: "They found the first body. It's a civilian. I mean, it's definitely a civilian aircraft."

The Mail's Ian Birrell suggests reports that Moscow supplied the ground-to-air missiles used in the attack provide evidence of "the blood on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's hands".

The Sun certainly agrees, using its front page to declare "Putin's missile" was to blame. For Prof Peter Rutland, writing in the Daily Mirror, "it looks like all roads lead to Moscow". He says "only sophisticated missile systems" could shoot down something flying at the passenger jet's 32-33,000ft altitude. And the Daily Telegraph's Con Coughlin writes: "There has been a marked build-up of sophisticated Russian weaponry since Ukraine last month signed an association agreement with the EU, which senior Kremlin officials at the time warned would have 'grave consequences'."

Arms specialists tell the Times that the 9K37-BUK surface-to-air missile most likely to have been used requires a "well-trained crew" and that the mistake may have derived from its crew only having been partially tutored in its use. "The mobile missile system relies on armoured track vehicles, radar and intelligence to acquire a target and attack, making it difficult for personnel properly trained in air defence to mistake a civilian airline for an enemy aircraft," reports Deborah Haynes.

U.S. orders American aircraft to avoid eastern Ukraine airspace


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued an order on Thursday night prohibiting American aircraft from flying over eastern Ukraine following the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight in that region.

Citing "recent events and the potential for continued hazardous activities," the FAA said the restricted area included the entire Simferopol and Dnepropetrovsk flight information regions. "This action expands a prohibition of U.S. flight operations issued by the FAA in April, over the Crimean region of Ukraine and adjacent areas of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov," the agency said.

It added that no scheduled U.S. airlines were currently flying routes through the airspace.

Earlier in the day, the FAA said American air carriers had voluntarily agreed to avoid flying through airspace near Russia's border with Ukraine after the crash.

The FAA said its April order, known as a Notice to Airmen, was prompted by "unilateral and illegal action by Russia to assert control over Crimean airspace," including international airspace administered by Ukraine. In March, Russia annexed Crimea.

The FAA said Russia's actions at the time had created "the potential for conflicting air traffic control instructions from Ukrainian and Russian authorities" and a risk of civil aircraft being misidentified by authorities.

The FAA's April order also warned U.S. operators and pilots flying in other parts of Ukraine, including Kiev, Lvov, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa, to "exercise extreme caution due to the continuing potential for instability."

The FAA said that its April order, which will remain in effect until April 23, 2015, did not cover the specific airspace where the Malaysian flight went down on Thursday.