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originally posted by: BornAgainAlien
a reply to: Xcathdra
The SU-25 did attack possible later when MH17 had lost altitude already.
originally posted by: BornAgainAlien
a reply to: Xcathdra
If you have read exactly what it said, it could have been done only to get to the bodies (they were decomposing)....but as usual, that part got blind sided by you, because you have not other interest in to pin it on Putin.
The SU-25 did attack possible later when MH17 had lost altitude already.
originally posted by: BornAgainAlien
a reply to: Zaphod58
I didn`t know all of the FDR has been made public, only a preliminary assessment and it was still under investigation...besides, with a cover up they can say anything about that, have you seen the actual results yourself?
At 13.20:00 hrs, Dnipro Control transmitted an onward ATC clearance to proceed direct to TIKNA after RND, no acknowledgement was received. Data from the Flight Data Recorder and the Digital Cockpit Voice Recorder both stopped
at 13.20:03 hrs. No distress messages were received from the aircraft.
2�3 Damage to the aircraft
The aircraft was destroyed. Wreckage was dispersed over a large area.
2.5.3
Other traffic
According to information received from the NBAAI, recorded ATC surveillance information revealed that three other commercial airliners overflew the same restricted airspace as flight MH17 around the time of the occurrence. Two of those aircraft were cruising eastbound and one was cruising westbound. All were under control of Dnipro Radar. At
13.20 hrs the distance between MH17 and the closest of the three aircraft was approximately 30 kilometres. Analyses is ongoing.
2.9.2 Cockpit voice recorder
Damage
The housing of the CVR (figure 4) had been damaged and, although the model and serial numbers were unreadable on the data plate, the serial number 1366 - matching the one provided by Malaysia Airlines - was found stamped on the underside of the chassis. The
external damage found on the CVR is consistent with impact damage, the internal memory module was intact. The recording capacity of this recorder is 30 minutes. The full 30 minutes were successfully downloaded and contained valid data from the
flight.
Figure 4: Cockpit voice recorder. (Source: AAIB) Information
The replay of the CVR matched ATC communications with the aircraft (see ATC transcript). The recording also included crew communication which gave no indication that there was anything abnormal with the flight. The CVR audio recording ended abruptly. A replay
of the CVR did not identify any aircraft aural warnings or alerts of system malfunctions. Detailed analysis is ongoing
Information
The data on the Flight Data Recorder indicated that the aircraft was flying at FL330, on a constant displayed heading of 115° and at a constant speed of 293 kts computed airspeed (groundspeed 494 kts, equals 915 kilometres per hour). According to the data on the FDR, both engines were running at cruise power. All indications regarding the operation of the engines were normal.
No aircraft system warnings or cautions were detected. The data stopped abruptly at 13.20:03 hrs. Relevant details from the FDR recordings are published in Appendix A (last 3 minutes). Detailed analysis is ongoing.
Source
You linked to someone claiming the aircraft exploded at very low altitude.