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Originally Posted by MarchHare
When I said it was almost certainly an accident, I meant that the SAM operators likely didn't intend to shoot down a commercial airliner carrying nearly 300 civilians. Nobody has anything to gain from that. This tragedy was either caused by inexperienced rebels not knowing how to properly operate the BUK system or Russian or Ukrainian forces making a terrible mistake akin to the US Navy shooting down Iran Air 655.
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The only reasons to deliberately shoot down a civilian aircraft would be to provoke the west or frame the other side. Neither make sense though for conspiracy buffs it seems the Ukraine government was the first to pin it on rebels and is the first to mention secret recordings about it....
Personally I'm not a conspiracy buff so I expect it was accidental / gross negligence. That's not to excuse whoever did it or who armed them though.