UPDATED – Spanish Air Controller @ Kiev Borispol
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Original: EturboNews (ETN Global Travel Industry News) – July 17, 2014
ETN received information from an air traffic controller in Kiev on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
This Kiev air traffic controller is a citizen of Spain and was
working in the Ukraine. He was taken off duty as a civil air-traffic
controller along with other foreigners immediately after a Malaysia
Airlines passenger aircraft was shot down over the Eastern Ukraine
killing 295 passengers and crew on board.
The air traffic controller suggested in a private evaluation and
basing it on military sources in Kiev, that the Ukrainian military was
behind this shoot down. Radar records were immediately confiscated after
it became clear a passenger jet was shot down.
Military air traffic controllers in internal communication
acknowledged the military was involved, and some military chatter said
they did not know where the order to shoot down the plane originated
from.
Obviously it happened after a series of errors, since the very same
plane was escorted by two Ukrainian fighter jets until 3 minutes before
it disappeared from radar.
Radar screen shots also show an unexplained change of course of the
Malaysian Boeing. The change of course took the aircraft directly over
the Eastern Ukraine conflict region.
Some tweets received suggest this may have been a secret military
uprising against the current Ukrainian president under the direction of
formerly-jailed Prime Minister Timoshenko.
According to other rumors, the black box for this crashed Malaysian
Airlines flight was taken by Donetsk separatists. A spokesperson for the
rebel group said this black box would be sent to the Interstate
Aviation Committee headquartered in Moscow.
The First Deputy Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed People’s
Republic of Donetsk, Andrew Purgin, stated that the flight recorders of
the crashed aircraft will be transferred to Moscow for examination.
Sources say the Rebel group leadership hopes this would confirm the
Ukrainian military actually shot down this aircraft. This was reported
by the news agency Interfax-Ukraine.
ETN statement: The information in this article is independently
confirmed and based on the statement of one airline controller and other
tweets received.
Translated from Spanish by Luis Lopez
Source: Tweets by Spanish Air Controller - @spainbuca
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