Luc 4,776 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 I don't know what news you've been following but not a single national news source is solely focusing on just the Dutch on board, they practically always mention all the other nationalities. The fact they talk a bit more about the impact on the Dutch is because it was a flight by a Dutch airliner as well as a Malaysian one and thus a Dutch KLM flight was taken down + the government and companies/officials have explaining to do to Dutch citizens and the people that stay behind, of course you'll hear more about this when people from your country were involved, quite an ognorant comment by Elizabeth :dead: She's talking about Australian media. I've read a few Australian articles, and nowhere did they mention the nationalities from other countries. Also ignorant is to say something like #PrayForMalaysia. About 15% of the people were Malaysian.. Ban Ki Moon for example said something along the lines of 'and we should give all of our love to the Malaysian families and friends of the people who have lost somebody, but he didn't mention the Filippino, Indonesian, Australian, Canadian, Dutch, etc. families and friends of people who have died.. Anyways, a classmate of somebody I know died in this aircrash. So sad.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Applause 650 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 This is horrible. :( "A "working theory" in the U.S. intelligence community is that the Russian military supplied a Buk surface-to-air missile system to the rebels, a senior defense official told CNN. The official would not discuss the specific intelligence that is leading to this assessment. U.S. intelligence and military a--lysts are also scrutinizing video apparently showing a Buk system being driven back across the Russian border after Thursday's crash, the official said." -CNN Xalser Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pink sushi 4,351 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 So sad...RIP.... :( Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Applause 650 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 299 I think 298 Xalser Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziva 193 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 FINAL UPDATE: The nationalities of the last 4 people have been announced. On the plane were 192 Dutch 44 Malaysians 27 Australians 12 Indonesians 9 British 4 Germans 4 Belgian 3 Filipino 1 Canadian 1 New-Zealander 1 American May they all rest in peace :( Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariann 301 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 RIP :( Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMROD 117,063 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Sad that at least 80 of the victims are children. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ ᶠʳᵒⁿᵗ ᵗᵒʷᵃʳᵈ ᵉⁿᵉᵐʸ (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate 0 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 FINAL UPDATE: The nationalities of the last 4 people have been announced. On the plane were 192 Dutch 44 Malaysians 27 Australians 12 Indonesians 9 British 4 Germans 4 Belgian 3 Filipino 1 Canadian 1 New-Zealander 1 American May they all rest in peace :( There was also an Irish woman killed. :( Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziva 193 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 There was also an Irish woman killed. :( :( I still can't believe this happened, it's all so surreal! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
socotra 3,357 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 This truly does change everything. It now shifts the issue from airline security to airline defense... if they can shoot down aircrafts from the ground, it takes out the whole process of getting onto the planes. If these separtists obtained these weapons (giving the Russian Federation the benefit of the doubt), who's to say al-Qaeda can't obtain similar weapons and enter the United States and sit in Oklahoma City and shoot down anything that flies over? Rest in peace to all who perished. I can't believe this is still happening in 2014. People are ****ed up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris777 112 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 R.I.P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Josh 3 Posted July 18, 2014 Author Share Posted July 18, 2014 This truly does change everything. It now shifts the issue from airline security to airline defense... if they can shoot down aircrafts from the ground, it takes out the whole process of getting onto the planes. If these separtists obtained these weapons (giving the Russian Federation the benefit of the doubt), who's to say al-Qaeda can't obtain similar weapons and enter the United States and sit in Oklahoma City and shoot down anything that flies over? Rest in peace to all who perished. I can't believe this is still happening in 2014. People are ****ed up. Bringing this to Oklahoma City is kind of impossible Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
True Blue 47 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 https://twitter.com/XJintewals her last tweets says ''going on the plane to malaysia in an hour ! '' ''finally going to malaysia this thursday'' .... may she rest in peace together with all of the other 298 people who have lost their lives. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Applause 650 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 (edited) This truly does change everything. It now shifts the issue from airline security to airline defense... if they can shoot down aircrafts from the ground, it takes out the whole process of getting onto the planes. If these separtists obtained these weapons (giving the Russian Federation the benefit of the doubt), who's to say al-Qaeda can't obtain similar weapons and enter the United States and sit in Oklahoma City and shoot down anything that flies over? Rest in peace to all who perished. I can't believe this is still happening in 2014. People are ****ed up. Although I agree airlines should now look at possible defenses for air lines (maybe flares on all aircraft). The chances of terrorists obtaining that kind of hardware is not likely. Russia did give the "separatists" the hardware. These are highly advances anti-air machines, only major countries make them (US, Russia, Israel, UK). Also these machines require HIGHLY TRAINED personnel. They aren't just toy rockets. They go very fast and reach altitudes higher than an other machine. There is no doubt Russia has blame for this. It WAS the machine they made and their trained troops. No terrorist would know how to operate it correctly for a direct hit so high. Edited July 18, 2014 by Applause Xalser Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VISION 52 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 (edited) OK. Russia is related to it and supported the separatists with weapons. They are to blame a big part on the Ukrainian situation. There are absolutely no excuses for it, and it shouldn't happen. I just want to state this: USA basically destroyed the whole country of Iraq (Serbia, Vietnam, 2 Japan atomic bombs, etc.), yet no one introduced any sanctions. This just shows that a big one is feared and respected. No one would dare to say anything about USA, just saying None of these countries had the rights to do what they did, but let's not act like USA is an angel either, who did much more mess worldwide than USSR/Russia Edited July 18, 2014 by VISION Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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