*** Official Putin Started Shootin' Thread ***

[Poopadoop]

The official story is that the passengers overwhelmed the terrorists, but back then I was thinking maybe it was shot down

It's not impossible, but you would think there'd be some clue in the wreckage, some kind of evidence of an external object hitting the plane. I guess they could have covered that up too.

[OngBonga]

It's not impossible, but you would think there'd be some clue in the wreckage, some kind of evidence of an external object hitting the plane. I guess they could have covered that up too.

Yeah I mean if the Americans shot down that plane and plan to tell a heartwarming story about patriotic American bravery in the face of certain death, they're going to cover their tracks.

It was the early days of the internet back then. There were all sorts of people making claims that couldn't be verified. I recall reading about a bunch of 9/11 firefighters who had apparently gone on record to say they saw evidence of thermite in the wreckage, and heard a series of timed explosions similar to a controlled demolition. These people are either liars, or are assumed to be liars. So even if a witness claimed he saw the plane being shot down, nobody would believe them except those who want to believe them.

[Poopadoop]

Yeah I mean if the Americans shot down that plane and plan to tell a heartwarming story about patriotic American bravery in the face of certain death, they're going to cover their tracks.

Weren't a bunch of passengers calling their loved ones and telling them they were going to go Rambo the cockpit?

As for the crash, normally these are investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board in the US. This one was as well. So they'd have to be in on the coverup, to the point of falsifying data from the flight data recorder, as well as lying about what brought it down. Again, not impossible they could be coerced into doing that by the FBI or whoever, but seems like a pretty big operation.

Either way, those people were going to die, so even if they did shoot it down, it's not that big a deal in a way.

[Poopadoop]

I recall reading about a bunch of 9/11 firefighters who had apparently gone on record to say they saw evidence of thermite in the wreckage, and heard a series of timed explosions similar to a controlled demolition.

Meh. If you're going to be a conspiracy theorist, there's plenty of better ones out there where the evidence is much stronger that the official stories were fiction. Both Kennedys, MLK, etc..