By the sounds of local Russian social media at the time, the rebels stated they had shot down a Ukranian cargo plane. Sadly, it looks like they got the wrong plane. This is the most probable cause, a massive cock up.
Thats certainly true, every fires different i suppose. The verocity of this one looked pretty intense but if bodies are turning up it cant have destroyed eveything at the crash site.
My healthy cynicism of the media is just looking for things that "dont fit" which i always do. Terrible tragedy...
Well, card is pretty flammable and on the video i saw on Sky News the plane exploded into a massive fireball on the ground and continued to burn. The whole structure of the plane is decimated, yet we have a picture which shows recovered passports from that plane (which is on fire) that arent...
It does seem odd to me that there is no damage to the passports when the plane is a smuldering wreck that exploded in a massive fireball on impact... surely they should be a little singed? Plane tickets are even still inside one of the passports, completely undamaged. Not suggesting a mental...