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MH17 Inquiry – Series 2, Episode 1. “What if it was a BUK?”

This is the first part in the second season of videos and articles covering the downing of MH17, produced by the MH17 Inquiry. The first season is available here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6.

Series 1 covered and disputed the major “findings” of both the MH 17 official inquiries and those of the “citizen journalist” groups. Beginning with in-depth investigations into the sightings of a BUK convoy in Zugres, that mysterious Elderberry bush, BBC coverage, sightings of a MIG fighter and ending with the enigmatic “To Whose Benefit?”
Not being a group to sit on their laurels, nor on a cosy armchair like a Bellingcat … the MH 17 Inquiry authors have begun production of series 2, continuing their tradition of investigating on location, where the evidence is. The opening episode begins with a recap of the MH17 disaster, asking which countries have ever “accidentally” shot down a commercial passenger jet and how is it possible that such disasters happened?
The inquiry travels to Tuusula in Finland, to study the only BUK M system in the world that is on public display at the Anti-Aircraft Museum and to interview Esa Kelloniemi, a retired Commander of a Finnish Anti-Aircraft Regiment with direct experience of both commissioning and commanding the deployment of BUK systems.
Finland, we are told, chose the BUK M system in preference to others, not only because of its power but because of it’s target identification technology that includes an optical viewing system and complex Non-Cooperative Target Recognition (NCTR) technology that is so sophisticated that it can deduce, from analysis of the radar signals bouncing back from an aircraft, if that plane is a jet fighter or a passenger jet, a turbo-prop transport or a 777 with turbofans. Apart from that passenger jets fly at much higher altitudes than fighter jets normally do, so the BUK altitude detector system will clearly show the height of any potential target further aiding identification.
The BUK it seems is equipped with all the technology required to confidently identify any plane, so it is not possible for a mistake to be made even by a fully trained operating crew, a civilian aircraft could not be targeted, as was possible before such sophisticated systems were in use.
Neither is it possible, Esa explains, for untrained personnel or “beginners” to operate the sophisticated BUK system, it takes one year to train the required team of 3 operators to a basic operational level, then ongoing in-service training is required to learn the intricacies of all the systems.
An accidental firing is not possible either, we are told, as the systems have to lock onto the target first, if it hasn’t and a launch takes place the system automatically self-destructs the missile. Nor is it possible for someone to impulsively press the launch button as it is locked with a key and as it is not target locked it will destroy itself anyway.
So the facts seem to indicate that it is not possible, as some speculate, that someone captured a Ukrainian BUK system and wildly fired it at some unidentified plane, nor would it be possible for an accidental launch to actually bring down any plane.
In addition, to those who say that “the Russians did it”, the inquiry reminds us that the Russian Air Defence Force has never shot down a civilian plane accidentally… so who did it? There is nobody, they say, who would be more disadvantaged by shooting down MH17 than the Russians and the Donbas Peoples Corp, what could possibly have been their motivation for such an act?
It’s a logical conclusion, MH17 Inquiry say, that as Ukraine managed to shoot down a civilian jet in 2001 in a strikingly similar situation that we should look in their direction for the suspects.
Who benefits? – Is the central question in any police or forensic investigation, so ask yourself “Cui bono?”


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rehmat1
rehmat1
Oct 21, 2017 12:53 PM

In addition to MH17, Malaysia lost MH370 and Airbus Flight QZ8501 with 162 people went missing 42 minutes after it took off from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore. The flight was projected to last for two hours.
https://rehmat1.com/2014/12/30/not-again-third-malaysian-airliner-gone-missing/

Empire Of Stupid
Empire Of Stupid
Oct 20, 2017 8:20 PM

Logic tells us that the Russians had nothing to gain and everything to lose. Even more so regarding Donbass. If logic leads us to conclude the Ukrainians were responsible, then why? Claim it was the Russians and inflame the world against them? Or, my personal favorite, because the they had the wrong aircraft and thought Putin was aboard?

Alan
Alan
Oct 20, 2017 6:45 PM

The devastation of all the families and friends of those murdered is lost in a morass of political intrigue. Resolve isn’t driven by compassion, rather the empty threads of a callous, methodical propaganda program. The regimes with access to sophisticated surveillance hardware know exactly what occurred but choose to exploit the misery of those left to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. If those who claim to be investigating weren’t so obsessed with calumny they might be focussed upon holding regimes to account.

vexarb
vexarb
Oct 20, 2017 11:38 AM

Cui bono? Same gang that deliberately killed 3,000 innocents by blowing up 3 tower buidings in NYC 2001 as a “false flag” to initiate the ongoing War of Terror over the entire MENA; whyich benefitted high ranking members of the regimes known collectively as FUKZUSA (France, UK, Zion, USA) – primarily oil tycoons, bankers and arms companies (though political executives also received a relatively “modest fortune”). The false flag MH17 was designed to initiate the current demonization of Russia prparatory to enriching the same gang by a NATO raid on the vast natural resources of Russia.

vexarb
vexarb
Oct 20, 2017 11:23 AM

Testing… (not a comment)

Schlüter
Schlüter
Oct 19, 2017 9:06 PM

I always like to remind People of the “incident” that on board were also dozens of scientists on their way to an AIDS congress in Australia, among one who had made very critical remarks on Ebola!
„Ebola: Pandora´s Box Opened Since Long?“ http://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/ebola-pandoras-box-opened-since-long/
Regards

bevin
bevin
Oct 19, 2017 8:44 PM

My money would be on Elliot Higgins whose frantic attempts to blame others for this crime and others is otherwise unaccountable.
Incidentally I heard Bellingcat referred to as ‘an investigative journalism collective’ recently. That was in a lame CBC news report attempting to blame the Russian government for killing critics of the Maidan fascist regime.

Paolo
Paolo
Oct 25, 2017 7:33 PM
Reply to  bevin

Apparently he has a large bedroom.

johnjeffery11@gmail.com
Oct 19, 2017 8:10 PM

CIA