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General Category => World News => Topic started by: flowers on July 18, 2014, 07:27:47 pm

Title: 'Almost nobody on board would have known what was happening': Expert describes effect of missile hit on MH17
Post by: flowers on July 18, 2014, 07:27:47 pm

'Almost nobody on board would have known what was happening': Expert describes effect of missile hit on MH17

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2697669/Almost-board-known-happening-Expert-describes-effect-missile-hit-MH17.html

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The 298 passengers and crew aboard MH17 will have been oblivious to the horror as a shrapnel-based missile instantly shredded the doomed plane, experts claim.

The SA-11 missile - known as a Grizzly - that hit the doomed Malaysian Airlines flight is designed to pulverise aircraft on impact.

It will have perforated the plane at various points, ignited the fuel, and taken out the engines and the wings within a split second - meaning the people aboard will have been unconscious almost instantly.