Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
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.