Ukraine admits it shot down Russian airliner
By Ben Aris in Moscow
12:01AM BST 13 Oct 2001
Ukraine finally admitted yesterday that its military shot down a Russian airliner that crashed into the Black Sea last week, killing all 78 passengers and crew.
Evhen Marchuk, the chairman of Ukraine's security council, conceded that the plane had probably been brought down by "an accidental hit from an S-200 rocket fired during exercises".
Russian investigators believe a missile exploded near the plane, spraying it with shrapnel. Russian and Israeli scientists found metal pellets in the victims and in the fuselage.
Vladimir Rushailo, the chairman of Russia's security council, said: "The investigation has found that the disaster resulted from a strike by a warhead from an anti-aircraft missile."
Although both Russia and Ukraine were almost certainly aware of the cause from the start, it took eight days for Ukraine to accept responsibility.
Last year four people were killed when a Ukrainian rocket hit a block of flats.
Two weeks following 9/11, and this one is incredibly weird - Ukraine initially denied, then admitted that they shot it down, and the Americans initially claimed they had satellite photos of the launch and the crash, but never produced them and never investigated it as a possible terrorist bomb/hijacking (two weeks after 9/11).
The plane was heading to Tel Aviv and was full of Israelis - civilian air traffic control say that they didn't track any missile on their radar and the Ukrainian missile test firing was over 250km away and probably couldn't have come anywhere close to the jet.
Victor Yanokovich, the least anti-Russian Ukrainian President later said that they paid the compensation, but never accepted guilt - and clearly, no one was making any effort to recover the black boxes, so.....
I have NO idea what was going on with this one... But no one was telling the truth...:
https://vimeo.com/106882093
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