Video: Syrian Rebels Try to Shoot Down Commercial Airliner

tiger55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfZJH0CLbnw

krudler

Nobody ever won a medal for trying.

Fr_Dougal

n00bs.

tiger55

krudler wrote: »

Nobody ever won a medal for trying.

Glad you are taking this seriously.:rolleyes:

partyatmygaff

Scumbags.

unseenfootage

Has the authenticity of the video been verified?

All we see is a bunch of fighters shooting at a plane which could be military or civilian.

There is no way of determining whether the voices are real or fake.

They could've been dubbed in a studio.

tiger55

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Scumbags.

But wait, Obama and Cameron are sending these scumbags taxpayers money.

We are told these are the good guys, so it must be true.

Now just think...if they did shoot the plane down, the Western media would have said Assad did it

tiger55

unseenfootage wrote: »

Has the authenticity of the video been verified?

So you need to see it on the BBC before you believe it?

BBC has been caught lying many times previously.

MagicMarker

The plane must have moved awful fast after the 2nd shot, they turned the cannon about 100 degrees to the right.

Tigerandahalf

Cant watch these videos on boards as flash isnt supported anymore. Is there any workaround? Will it mean I cant go through the boards app directly. Sorry for derailing thread.

The_Kew_Tour

MagicMarker wrote: »

The plane must have moved awful fast after the 2nd shot, they turned the must have turned the cannon about 100 degrees to the right.

That's is what I was thinking too.

dreamers75

Why are civilian airplanes flying over Syria?

Riamfada

If they missed does that mean Allah didnt want it to happen?

Dravokivich

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Cant watch these videos on boards as flash isnt supported anymore. Is there any workaround? Will it mean I cant go through the boards app directly. Sorry for derailing thread.

There is no Boards app...

Anything on the iTunes or Google Play stores advertised as a boards app are just browsers hotwired to Boards.

mayotom

It's not surprising, Just like in Egypt and Libya the news channels are just telling one side of the story. This is a civil war with two sides, people are been killed on both the pro-assad side as well as the anti-assad side. But the western media tell the story as if 44,000 have been killed by assad troops and none by the rebels. Its time that there was fair reporting of the facts

Tigerandahalf

Dravokivich wrote: »

There is no Boards app...

Anything on the iTunes or Google Play stores advertised as a boards app are just browsers hotwired to Boards.

Why are boards so reluctant to bring out an official app? How are people playing the videos.
No end in sight in Syria it seems.

Duggy747

Propaganda videos is rampant on both sides, another recent one is them dropping bread around a bomb site and claiming that the terrorists blew up a bakery.

Kintarō Hattori

tiger55 wrote: »

So you need to see it on the BBC before you believe it?

BBC has been caught lying many times previously.

No-one mentioned the BBC my friend and in fairness, YouTube hardly has a reputation for integrity or accuracy. While it would be shocking were it true the poster you mocked does raise some very valid points. These things need to be verified before we lose the run of ourselves and call for all sorts of things to happen.

tiger55

Syrian priest tortured to death by Islamists: Eyes gouged out before murdered

http://www.examiner.com/article/syrian-orthodox-priest-tortured-to-death-by-islamists

RayCon

Its like something out of Four Lions ...

tiger55

Duggy747 wrote: »

Propaganda videos is rampant on both sides, another recent one is them dropping bread around a bomb site and claiming that the terrorists blew up a bakery.

Do you have some links for this.

Would not surprise me.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

This just in:

Ryanair have introduced a new infrared flare tax.

tiger55

Riamfada wrote: »

If they missed does that mean Allah didnt want it to happen?

The people on the plane prayed for them to miss, so they must have prayed harder:pac:

Dravokivich

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Why are boards so reluctant to bring out an official app? How are people playing the videos.
No end in sight in Syria it seems.

They have looked into it as far as I recall, but there was stuff they wanted to finish up on the site first.

Site Development:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=228
Or,
Feedback:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=82

Would be better places to post and ask.

If whatever you are using hasn't been put up by boards or Distilled media, its not an official App.

Depending on the type of phone you are using,

Android:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1343
or
Apple Media devices:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1176

Might help with flash.

Tigerandahalf

I am after downloading Dolphin browser on SGS2. I now am able to play the video. The anti aircraft guns dont look too modern.

pablomakaveli

dreamers75 wrote: »

Why are civilian airplanes flying over Syria?

This is the main question. It seems odd that civilian airliner would be flying over a warzone.

discus

The FSA isn't an army per say, it's a collection of militias, loosely bound by the fight against the government for various reasons and ideologies. Some want a new government and democracy, others are fighting to install a theocracy, and then there are some who just want to be the next collective in power. I'm not surprised that there are a few loose cannons (excuse the pun) firing at unidentified civilian aircraft, sure who do they have to answer to? If that plane had gone down, they'll suffer no punishment, sure who's gonna land them in jail anyway?

The sooner that civil war ends, the better, and it doesn't matter who wins, as long as a stable truce and peace holds.

donegal_road

wow, this is just like the time where the US Navy were accused of shooting down passenger jet TWA 800 over the Atlantic killing over 200 people. Of course there was a cover-up after the investigation which led to a charge of conspiracy theories emerging. There was no plausible or satisfactory outcome to the investigation. Link

My name is URL

Just because they're against Assad doesn't make them the good guys. People seem to think there are only two sides in this conflict which couldn't be further from the truth. There are literally dozens of disparate groups all vying for power, and not all of them have the best interests of the population at heart.

keithclancy

Hitting a relatively small object travelling very fast from far away with that thing.


Pretty much like trying to kill a rabbit by throwing tyres out the back of a moving hiace van while the rabbit is 100 meters away.

unseenfootage

tiger55 wrote: »

So you need to see it on the BBC before you believe it?

BBC has been caught lying many times previously.

Every bit of information must be scrutinized, especially if it is from the BBC.
........



Alex Jones is running with the same narrative as you are.

Wasn't it him who alerted us about the fake bin laden videos?

Rented Mule

keithclancy wrote: »

Pretty much like trying to kill a rabbit by throwing tyres out the back of a moving hiace van while the rabbit is 100 meters away.

So you're saying that we've got a chance ?

GalwayGuy2

Like Western Media says, that is unverified footage. And not all anti-Assad people are crazy Islamist, or crazy dictators, or crazies.

Nodin

tiger55 wrote: »

So you need to see it on the BBC before you believe it?

BBC has been caught lying many times previously.

...sez the man who posts David Duke videos as 'authoritive' sources of info.

Chancer3001

a load of boysh sitting in an anti aircraft gun.

Of course theyre going to shoot at a plane.

PLanes shouldnt be flying over that crazy crazy place.

It could be quite likely that it was an internal flight father than an international one.
But there are still Civil flights in and out of Damascus, including international ones.

http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByAirport.do?airportCode=DAM&airportQueryType=1

CrazyRabbit

Perhaps they thought someone was going to fly it into a building and kill a few thousand people...

Pilotdude5

http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/ifim/us_restrictions/media/FDC_NOTAM_2-7354_SECURITY_THREATS_TO_US_FLIGHT_OPERATIONS_INTO_OR_OVER_SYRIA_12-21-12.pdf

!FDC 2/7354(A0067/12) - ZZZ SYRIA ... SPECIAL NOTICE...
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
UNITED STATES (U.S.) FLIGHT OPERATIONS INTO, OUT OF, OR OVER
SYRIA.
DUE TO SYRIAN GOVERNMENT MILITARY ACTIVITIES AND THREATS FROM
THE FREE SYRIAN ARMY AGAINST CIVIL AIRPORTS, THERE IS A
SIGNIFICANT RISK TO CIVIL FLIGHT OPERATIONS IN SYRIA.
U.S. OPERATORS PLANNING TO FLY INTO, OUT OF, OR OVER SYRIA MUST
OBTAIN CURRENT THREAT INFORMATION, COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE
FAA REGULATIONS AND OPERATIONS SPECIFICATIONS, AND PROVIDE
ADVANCE NOTICE TO THE FAA AT AEO-CITEWATCH@FAA.GOV WITH SPECIFIC
FLIGHT DETAILS. ADDITIONALLY, U.S. OPERATORS MUST REPORT
SECURITY INCIDENTS TO THE FAA AT +1 202-493-5833 OR +1 202-267-
3333.
THE SECURITY CONDITIONS IN SYRIA FOR U.S. OPERATORS AND THE NEED
FOR THIS SPECIAL NOTICE WILL BE RE-EVALUATED BY 30 JUNE 2013.
THE FAA HAS PROVIDED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL
FLIGHT INFORMATION MANUAL AT:
[url]HTTP://WWW.FAA.GOV/AIR_TRAFFIC/PUBLICATIONS/IFIM/US_RESTRICTIONS[/url]
/

mayotom

Pilotdude5 wrote: »

http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/ifim/us_restrictions/media/FDC_NOTAM_2-7354_SECURITY_THREATS_TO_US_FLIGHT_OPERATIONS_INTO_OR_OVER_SYRIA_12-21-12.pdf

That's just US carriers, who would only have made up a small fraction of civil carriers operating in Syria